SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 24 September 2025, Shift 2 · English Comprehension · Question 15 of 100

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Find the part of the sentence that contains an error: It's central location (1)/ makes the conference venue (2)/ convenient for delegates (3)/ travelling from different cities. (4)/

(a)(1)
(b)(2)
(c)(3)
(d)(4)

Answer

Why

Correct — A. It's is short for it is or it has. Expand it and part (1) reads 'It is central location', which makes no sense.

The slot before central location needs a possessive determiner, and the possessive of it is its, with no apostrophe.

Corrected: 'Its central location makes the conference venue convenient for delegates travelling from different cities' → option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
(2) — makes the conference venue is sound. The subject, its central location, is singular, so makes agrees, and make + object + adjective (makes the venue convenient) is standard.
(c)
(3) — convenient for delegates is correct: convenient takes for before the people it suits, as in 'a time convenient for everyone'.
(d)
(4) — travelling with a double l is the standard British spelling, and American English writes traveling. Both are correct, so part (4) has no error.

Concept

The apostrophe in it's marks missing letters: it is, or it has. In modern English it's is never a possessive.

Its, like his, hers, ours, yours and theirs, is a possessive written with no apostrophe. The same trap sits in who's (who is) and whose.

The test takes a second: expand the apostrophe. If 'it is' or 'it has' does not make sense in the slot, you need its.

A spell-checker will not catch this: it's and its are both real words, so only the grammar of the slot tells them apart.

Key facts

It's = it is or it has: It's raining. It's been a long day.
Its = belonging to it: The company raised its prices.
Who's = who is or who has, and whose = belonging to whom.
Travelling (British) and traveling (American) are both correct.

Study next

Apostrophe pairs: it's and its, who's and whose, you're and your, they're and theirPossessive determiners: my, your, his, her, its, our, their

Common traps

Reading It's as a possessive because apostrophe-s marks possession in nouns (the venue's location). Pronouns form the possessive without it.
Flagging travelling as a misspelling. The double l is standard British spelling.

The same it's and its confusion is asked at 18 Sep 2024, 16:00, English Q.13, as a substitution: 'A computer can't function without it's mother board', keyed its.

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Topic: Error spotting — all 121 SSC CGL questions on it, every solved shift.