Dispose off the garbage from the shelves.
- (a)Error in the first underlined part
- (b)Error in the second underlined part
- (c)Error in the third underlined part
- (d)No error
Answer
A
Why
Correct — A, Error in the first underlined part. The phrasal verb meaning 'to get rid of' is 'dispose of', not 'dispose off'; 'off' is a mis-spelling of the preposition 'of', so it should read 'Dispose of the garbage from the shelves.'
Why the others are wrong
- (b)Error in the second underlined part — 'the garbage' is a correct object.
- (c)Error in the third underlined part — 'from the shelves' is grammatically correct.
- (d)No error — The sentence does contain an error — 'dispose off' should be 'dispose of'.
Concept
A phrasal-verb spelling item — 'dispose of' means to get rid of; 'off' is the wrong word here.
Related PYQs
No directly related past PYQ was found.
Practice
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the correct sentence.
- (a)Please dispose off the waste.
- (b)Please dispose of the waste.
- (c)Please dispose the waste off.
- (d)Please disposing of the waste.
Answer(b) Please dispose of the waste — the phrasal verb is 'dispose of'.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Fill in the blank: We must ____ these old files safely.
- (a)dispose off
- (b)dispose of
- (c)dispose from
- (d)disposing off
Answer(b) dispose of — the correct form of the phrasal verb.