Question
Choose the grammatically INCORRECT sentence:
Official answer and solution
- Official answer
- C
- From
- Official GATE 2013 answer key
Solution
Inspect each sentence for grammatical accuracy, specifically focusing on indefinite article usage with words starting with vowel letters that produce consonant sounds.
Let us examine the sentences:
- (A) "He is of Asian origin." Correct preposition and noun phrase.
- (B) "They belonged to Africa." Correct past tense and preposition.
- (C) "She is an European." The word "European" begins with a vowel letter 'E', but is pronounced with an initial consonant glide sound /j/ ("yoo-ruh-PEE-un"). In standard English, the indefinite article used before a consonant sound is "a", not "an". The correct sentence is "She is a European." Thus, this sentence is grammatically incorrect.
- (D) "They migrated from India to Australia." Correct usage.
Therefore, sentence (C) is the grammatically incorrect sentence.
Final answer
C
The answer is the one in the official GATE answer key. The solution is this site's own explanation.
Source
- Paper
- GATE 2013 Computer Science and Information Technology (CS)
- Question
- 60 of 65, printed as GA Q.60
- Section
- General Aptitude
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