SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 23 September 2024, Shift 3 · English Comprehension · Question 15 of 100

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The following sentence has been divided into four segments. Identify the segment that contains an error. Mr. Suman / asked me / to pack / my luggages.

(a)my luggages.
(b)to pack
(c)Mr. Suman
(d)asked me

Answer

Why

Correct — A. The error is in my luggages. Luggage is an uncountable noun, so it takes no plural -s.

The segment should read my luggage. When the number matters you count the containers, not the substance: two pieces of luggage, three items of luggage.

The remaining segments are sound — ask + person + to-infinitive is standard — so option (a) carries the error.

Why the others are wrong

(b)
to pack — To pack is the to-infinitive that ask plus an object requires: asked me to pack. Both the form and its position in the sentence are correct.
(c)
Mr. Suman — Mr. Suman is a title with a proper noun and holds no grammatical error. The segment carries the subject of the sentence and nothing else.
(d)
asked me — Asked me follows the pattern ask + person + to-infinitive, the standard way English reports a request, and its past tense matches the rest of the sentence.

Concept

English splits nouns into countable and uncountable, and the everyday uncountables are the ones to watch in an error-spotting item: luggage, baggage, furniture, information, advice, equipment, machinery, scenery.

These take no plural -s and no a or an. They are quantified with a partitive — a piece of, an item of, a bit of — and it is the partitive that carries the plural: two pieces of luggage.

In the four-segment format you test each segment alone, then reread the sentence with the faulty segment repaired to confirm it.

The full stop printed inside the fourth segment is part of the sentence, not part of the error. Segments are cut mechanically, so punctuation lands wherever the cut happens to fall.

Key facts

Luggage is uncountable, and there is no form luggages in standard English.
Uncountables are counted through a partitive, as in two pieces of luggage or three items of baggage.
An uncountable subject takes a singular verb: the luggage is heavy, not the luggage are heavy.

Study next

The everyday uncountable nouns and their partitives, from information to furnitureVerb agreement after an uncountable subjectThe four-segment error-spotting format, and testing one segment at a time

Common traps

Picturing several suitcases and so accepting a plural, when the noun itself cannot take one
Hunting for an error in Mr. Suman because the abbreviation looks like a punctuation trap

Here the sentence comes pre-cut into four segments, so test each segment on its own. The same uncountable-noun trap is set at 9 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.4, where the faulty segment is no informations.

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