SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 17 September 2024, Shift 3 · English Comprehension · Question 18 of 98

Text as printed on a candidate's response sheet for this shift; answer per SSC's tentative key as marked on that sheet. Solution last reviewed 6 September 2026.

Identify the error in the following sentence. Brr, the city view from the Eiffel Tower is amazing!

(a)amazing
(b)view
(c)Brr
(d)from

Answer

Why

Correct — C. Brr is the interjection English keeps for feeling cold — a shiver, not admiration.

The clause it introduces says the city view is amazing, so the feeling named and the feeling expressed pull in opposite directions. Brr is grammatically tied to nothing in the clause, so no agreement or tense fault is available here; the fault is the feeling.

Swap in Wow and the sentence is faultless. That is the test — change the flagged word alone and see whether the fault disappears.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
amazing — amazing is an ordinary adjective after 'is', and admiration is what a view from the Eiffel Tower invites. The word is right, and it is what exposes the interjection ahead of it.
(b)
view — view is the subject noun, singular to match 'is', inside the normal noun phrase 'the city view from the Eiffel Tower'. There is no fault of number, article or spelling to repair.
(d)
from — from is the correct preposition for a vantage point: you see a view from a tower, the way you see a city from a hilltop. Changing it to 'of' would alter the meaning, not fix an error.

Concept

An interjection is a word dropped into a sentence to voice feeling — Brr, Ouch, Alas, Wow, Hurrah. It has no grammatical relationship with the rest of the clause: it agrees with nothing, takes no case, and can be deleted without breaking the sentence.

So there is no agreement, case or tense here for the interjection to get wrong. What is left to test is whether the feeling the word names matches the feeling the sentence carries. Brr names cold, Ouch names sudden pain, Alas names sorrow, Wow names surprise or admiration.

The stem asks you to identify 'the error', but three of the four options are plain content words doing routine jobs. When one option is an interjection and the rest are not, test the interjection against the mood of the sentence before anything else.

Key facts

Brr expresses cold or shivering, not admiration.
Wow is the interjection that matches a sentence ending 'is amazing'.
An interjection is grammatically independent — remove it and the sentence is still complete.
Interjections are judged on appropriateness of feeling, which is why they can be wrong in a sentence that has no grammatical fault.

Study next

Interjections grouped by the feeling they name: Alas, Bravo, Hurrah, Oops, PhewPunctuation after an interjection, comma for a mild one and exclamation mark for a strong oneSegment-based error spotting, where the flagged unit is a phrase rather than a single word

Common traps

Reading 'Brr' as a spelling problem and hunting for a longer form. It is printed as SSC prints it, and the fault is the feeling it names.
Testing 'from' against 'of' out of habit. A view from a tower is standard English.
Assuming an interjection item must hide a rule of agreement or tense. Brr ties to nothing in this clause, so the feeling it names is what decides it.

Interjection usage carries a whole item at 12 Sep 2024, 16:00, English Q.20, where the sentence is split into four segments and the keyed segment is the one holding 'Ouch!'.

The same 'identify the error' frame with four one-word options also appears at 23 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.7, keyed on the pronoun 'Ourselves'.

At 26 Sep 2024, 12:30, English Q.2 the frame returns with segments instead of single words, keyed on the degree word 'latest'.

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