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Direction: In the following questions, some 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 number. If there is No error, your answer is (4) i.e. No error.

  1. Solve the question according to given instruction
    1. Citizens cannot afford
    2. to take the law
    3. out of their hands.
    4. No error
Correct Option: C

into will replace out of because –
take the law into your hands (Idiom) : to do something illegal in order to punish somebody for doing something wrong, instead of letting the police deal with him
Look at the examples given below :
Citizens don’t have the right to take the law into their own hands.
The shopkeeper took the law into his own hands
when he tried to arrest the thief.
Hence, into their hands is the right usage.



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