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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 and mark (1), (2) or (3). It there is No error, your answer is (4).

  1. Solve the question according to given instruction
    1. The reason why
    2. he was rejected
    3. was because he was too young.
    4. No error.
Correct Option: C

that will replace because
After clauses beginning with The reason why/The reason, the clause containing the reason will not begin with because. It will begin with that.
Look at the examples given below :
The reason why we were late is that there was a traffic accident.
The reason we left early was that we had to attend a party.
Hence, was that he was too young is the right usage



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