The following sentence is broken into four parts and two parts may contain an error in them. Find out the combination which contains an error. If the sentence is free from error, mark ‘No error’. Institutional and public sexism (A) have subsided, implicit (B) biased doubtless remains (C) but can be overcome. (D)?

Option 3 : BC

The correct answer is option 3, i.e. BC.

The error is in parts B and C where ‘have’ and ‘biased’ have been used incorrectly.

According to the rules of Subject verb agreement, the correct helping verb to be used here is 'has'.

The word 'biased' means 'unfair treatment or prejudice for someone'. The word 'bias' means 'the cause to feel or show such unfair treatment or prejudice'. A person who is influenced by a bias is biased. 'Biased' cannot be used for a non-living object. Therefore it is incorrectly used. The correct word to be used here should be 'bias'.

Hence, the sentence can be corrected as,

Institutional and public sexism has subsided, implicit bias doubtless remains but can be overcome.