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    Question

    Patients have bled themselves (A)/into anaemia and then

    (B)/set up at a doctor's office (C)/stating they haven't a clue about how they became so ill (D). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical/contextual error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. Mark the part with the error as your answer. If there is no error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).
    A Patients have bled themselves Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B into anaemia and then Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C set up at a doctor's office Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D stating they haven't a clue about how they became so ill Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E No error Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    The phrasal verb ‘set up’ means ‘the way in which things are organized or arranged’. This phrasal verb is inappropriate here. The correct phrasal verb is ‘show up’. It means ‘to arrive somewhere in order to join a group of people, especially late or unexpectedly’. Patients have bled themselves into anaemia and then showed up at a doctor's office stating they haven't a clue about how they became so ill.         

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