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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. If there is No error, the answer is (4).

  1. Solve the question according to given instruction
    1. John is working very hardly
    2. as the examinations
    3. are fast approaching.
    4. No error
Correct Option: A

hard will replace hardly because –
hardly (Adv.) : almost no/not/none but
hard (Adj.) : needing/using effort.
Look at the examples given below :
It is a hard shovelling snow.
There is hardly any tea left.
Hence, John is working very hard is the right usage.



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