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Direction: In the following questions, some parts of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is your answer. If a sentence is free from errors, your answer is (D) i.e. No error.

  1. Hearing these strange noise above, the thought at once occurred to me that thieves had entered the house.
    1. No error
    2. the thought at once occurred to me
    3. that thieves had entered the house
    4. Hearing these strange noises above
Correct Option: D

hear (V.) : static verb (verb of perception), not used in the Progressive Tenses. Hence, listening (to) the strange noise is the right usage make noises : to talk in an indirect way about something.



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