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 and select answer (1), (2) or (3). If there is No error, your answer is (4).
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Solve the question according to given instruction
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- When the football team walked onto the field
- the crowd burst into applause,
- but some cheers were heard too.
- No error
Correct Option: C
abuses will replace cheers because –
a contrast is evident in the sentence.
applause (Noun) : approval expressed, especially by the clapping of hands.
The opposite of applause is abuse
abuse (Noun) : make rude and offensive remarks.
Look at the examples given below :
The audience broke into a loud applause.
Others broke into a loud abuse.
Hence, but some abuses were heard too is the right usage.
