In the following question, some parts of the sentence may contain an error. Find out which part of the sentence does not have an error and click the option corresponding to it. If you think all the parts contain an error, mark option 5, i.e. ‘None of these’ as your answer choice. Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess was told (A)/ with the existence of cheating software (B)/ in cars two months before regulators exposing the multi-billion (C)/ dollar exhausting emission scandal, German magazine Der Spiegel reported. (D)?

Option 1 : A

The correct answer is option 1, i.e. A.

The erroneous combination is BCD and the part which does not contain any error is A.

In B, ‘with the existence’ is contextually wrong. From the given context, it is evident that the CEO was told about the existence of cheating software and not with the existence of cheating software.

We always tell someone about something and not with something.

Thus, the appropriate correction must be done to make the second part error free.

As the given sentence is in past tense thus, both ‘exposing’ and ‘exhausting’ in parts C and D respectively are incorrect. The form ‘ing’ is used to highlight the fact that the action is still alive which is not the case as the given context is in past tense thus, both C and D are incorrect.

The sentence can be correctly rewritten as-

Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess was told about the existence of cheating software in cars two months before regulators exposed the multi-billion dollar exhaust emission scandal, German magazine Der Spiegel reported.