A part of the sentence may or may not have an error. Find out which part has an error and mark that part as your answer. If there are no errors, mark 'No error' as your answer. Akshat was very late for the lectures today, on asking him he told me that having his breakfast, he went to visit his / (A) grandmother who is admitted to the AIIMS hospital / (B) so he could not made on time on his return. / (C) No error / (D)
A part of the sentence may or may not have an error. Find out which part has an error and mark that part as your answer. If there are no errors, mark 'No error' as your answer. Akshat was very late for the lectures today, on asking him he told me that having his breakfast, he went to visit his / (A) grandmother who is admitted to the AIIMS hospital / (B) so he could not made on time on his return. / (C) No error / (D) Correct Answer A
The correct answer is option 1 i.e. A
The given sentence is erroneous because of the wrong usage of ‘present participle-having’ in the first part of the sentence
Participles are the forms of verbs which act as a verb and ajective both and sometimes used to join two or more actions together, different participles have different meanings given below-
Present participle (v1+ing) is used to show an incomplete action
Past participle (v3) is used to show completed action with the effect of the one on actions.
Past perfect participle (having +v3) is used to join two or more completed actions of the past
Here in the given sentence, the sentence with present participle says that while Akshat was having his breakfast, meanwhile he went to visit his grandmother, which is not possible because he went after finishing his first action
Therefore, we need perfect participle to show that both the actions were completed in the past one after another, hence we wiil use ‘having done my breakfast/having completed my breakfast’ in place of ‘having my breakfast’
the correct sentence- 'Akshat was very late for the lectures today, on asking him he told me that having done his breakfast, he went to visit his grandmother who is admitted to the AIIMS hospital so he could not made on time on his return.’