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Direction: In the following questions, some parts of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is your answer. If a sentence is free from error, then your answer is (4), i.e. No error.

  1. Solve the question according to given instruction
    1. Prohibition aims at reducing
    2. traffic accidents many of which
    3. is caused by drunkenness.
    4. No error
Correct Option: C

are will replace is because –
many (Pronoun) is the antecedent and Pronouns like few, many, several, both, all, some always take the Plural form.
More over, the sentence is in Passive Voice
The structure in Passive Voice is as follows :
Sub. + Aux.V. + Main V. (Past Participle) + by + Agent (doer)
Hence,are caused by drunkenness is the right usage



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