Question
She was in charge of organizing the event / and has been
working on it / since the last few weeks / to ensure its success. The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.Solution
The phrase should be "for the last few weeks" instead of "since the last few weeks." "Since" is used to indicate a specific point in time, whereas "for" is used for a duration.
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