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.
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Hearing these strange noise above, the thought at once occurred to me that thieves had entered the house.
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- No error
- the thought at once occurred to me
- that thieves had entered the house
- 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.