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    Question

    Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical 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).

    Sri Lanka is facing its worse financial crisis, (1)/and had declared an emergency (2)/in August last in the face of (3)/a crippling foreign exchange crunch (4).

    A 1 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B 2 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C 3 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D 4 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E No error Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Here, the superlative degree of ‘bad’ should be used. We are not comparing anything, so the comparative degree, ‘worse’ is incorrect. Sri Lanka is facing its worst financial crisis, and had declared an emergency in August last in the face of a crippling foreign exchange crunch.

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