Direction: Read each of the following sentences to find out if there is any error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of it. The number of that part is the answer. If there is No error your answer is (4), i.e. No error
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Solve the question according to given instruction
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- Our new neighbours
- had been living in Arizona
- since ten years before moving to their present house.
- No error.
Correct Option: C
for will replace since because –
for (Prep.) indicates a length of time
Since (Prep.) indicates a past time until a later time, or until now
Look at the examples given below :
I have lived in Bangalore for twenty-five years.
I had been living in Bangalore since 1964.
Hence, for ten years before moving to their present house is the right usage.
