SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 17 September 2024, Shift 1 · English Comprehension · Question 17 of 98

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The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains an error. Dr. Sinha has / brought about a new / book on social / impact of child labour.

(a)Dr. Sinha has
(b)book on social
(c)brought about a new
(d)impact of child labour

Answer

Why

Correct — C. The fault is the particle. Bring about means to cause something to happen — you bring about a change, a reform, a collapse.

A book is brought out: to bring out a book is to publish or release it. 'Brought about a new book' therefore pairs the wrong particle with the wrong kind of object.

Read the sentence with the repair — 'Dr. Sinha has brought out a new book on social impact of child labour' — and the verb settles. The faulty segment is option (c).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Dr. Sinha has — Dr. Sinha has is a correct present-perfect opening: has agrees with the singular subject, and the perfect suits a book that has just appeared.
(b)
book on social — book on social uses on, the standard preposition for a book's subject — a book on economics, a book on child labour.
(d)
impact of child labour — impact of child labour is the noun phrase naming the subject, and its of is correct. The particle in the second segment is what the key marks.

Concept

Segment-error items hide exactly one fault, and the usual candidates are tense, subject-verb agreement, article, preposition and phrasal-verb particle.

A phrasal verb is not the sum of its parts. Bring about is to cause, bring out is to publish or reveal, bring up is to raise a child or raise a topic, bring off is to succeed at something difficult.

Because 'brought about' is itself perfectly good English, the fault stays invisible until you test the particle against its object. Changes are brought about; books are brought out.

One thing here is worth noticing and not marking: the fourth segment reads 'on social impact of child labour', where careful prose would write 'the social impact'.

SSC's key marks the phrasal verb, and in a single-error item you take the fault the item is built on — here the particle.

Key facts

Bring about means to cause something to happen.
Bring out means to publish or release something.
Bring up means to raise a child, or to raise a topic in conversation.

Study next

Phrasal verbs with bring: about, out, up, off, forwardSegment-error items where the fault is a preposition rather than a verbPresent perfect with has and have in error-spotting sentences

Common traps

'Brought about' sounds idiomatic, so the ear approves it and the eye moves on.
Suspecting the tense in 'Dr. Sinha has', which is correct as it stands.
Marking the fourth segment for the missing 'the' before 'social impact'.

The four-segment format is used for grammar, for articles and for spelling, with the same instruction line each time.

The article version sits at English Q.5 of this paper, where 'strengthen an intellectual' is the faulty segment. A tense version appears on 10 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.11, with 'will replaced traditional fossil fuels'.

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