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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 answer. Your answer is (4) i.e., No error.

  1. Solve the question according to given instruction
    1. Bacon, the father of the English essay
    2. had a thirst
    3. of knowledge.
    4. No error
Correct Option: C

for will replace of because –
thirst (for something) (Noun) : a strong desire for something
Thirst agrees with for (Prep.) as in –
athirst for knowledge
Hence, for knowledge is the right usage.



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