NDA (II) 2022 GAT Q34: This monument happens (a) / to be one of the old monument

Q: What is the answer to NDA (II) 2022 GAT Q34?

B. Correct — B, (b). After 'one of the' a plural noun is required, and the sense places the monument inside a group, so 'one of the old monument' should read 'one of the oldest monuments'. The corrected sentence is 'This monument happens to be one of the oldest monuments in the city.'

NDA (II) 2022 General Ability Test · Question 34 of 150

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This monument happens (a) / to be one of the old monument (b) / in the city. (c)

(a)(a)
(b)(b)
(c)(c)
(d)No error

Answer

Why

Correct — B, (b). After 'one of the' a plural noun is required, and the sense places the monument inside a group, so 'one of the old monument' should read 'one of the oldest monuments'. The corrected sentence is 'This monument happens to be one of the oldest monuments in the city.'

Why the others are wrong

(a)(a) — 'This monument happens' matches a singular subject with a singular verb and is correctly formed.
(c)(c) — 'In the city' is a simple prepositional phrase and there is nothing in it to correct.
(d)No error — The middle segment must be corrected, since 'one of the' cannot be followed by a singular noun, so no error is not available.

Concept

A spotting-errors item on the pattern of one of the, a superlative adjective and a plural noun.

The words 'one of the' select a single item out of a set, so the noun naming that set has to be plural. Once the noun goes plural, the plain adjective 'old' also has to rise to the superlative 'oldest', because the sentence is placing this monument among the city's oldest.

Key facts

'One of the' is always followed by a plural noun.
The standard pattern runs one of the, then a superlative, then a plural noun, as in 'one of the tallest buildings'.

Study next

The construction of one of the with a superlative and a plural nounDegrees of comparison — positive, comparative and superlativeCountable nouns and agreement in number after quantifiers

Common traps

Reading the singular 'monument' as agreeing with the singular subject of the sentence.
Correcting only the number and leaving the adjective in the positive degree.

Asked as a spotting-errors item — name the segment with the mistake, or mark no error.

Related PYQs

No directly related past PYQ was found.

Practice

practice — not a real PYQ
Which part contains the error? 'Kolkata is one of (a) / the largest city (b) / in India. (c)'
- (a)(a)
- (b)(b)
- (c)(c)
- (d)No error
Answer(b) — 'city' should be 'cities', since 'one of the' takes a plural noun.
practice — not a real PYQ
Which part contains the error? 'He is one of the (a) / most talented (b) / singer in the country. (c)'
- (a)(a)
- (b)(b)
- (c)(c)
- (d)No error
Answer(c) — 'singer' should be 'singers' to complete 'one of the most talented'.