English Grammar - Spotting Errors

English Grammar
English Grammar - Spotting Errors

Find the part of the sentence that contains an error.


The more senior the position was (1)/ the more urgent became the need (2)/ for discretion, decorum, and (3)/ refraining from premature disclosure. (4)

Options:

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)

Right Answer: (4)

The preposition 'for' in part three introduces a list, and every item in that list must share the same grammatical form. The first two items, 'discretion' and 'decorum', are plain nouns. Part four, however, supplies the gerund 'refraining', which breaks the parallel structure of the series. To correct it the writer would need a noun such as 'restraint', giving 'for discretion, decorum, and restraint'. Parts one and two are correctly built as a double comparative construction of the 'the more ... the more' type. Hence the error lies in part (4).

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