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A. its major challenges had been the recent economic
Had been correct
Economic correct
Hence A
B. its major challenges has been the recent economical
Said it would: need to a past tense:
Economical : wrong
Is : wrong tense usage
C. its major challenge is the recently happening economic
Said it would: need to a past tense:
Is : wrong tense usage
D. their major challenges is the recent economic
Their : wrong usage
E. their major challenges had been the recent economical
Their : wrong usage
Had been correct
Economic correct
Hence A
B. its major challenges has been the recent economical
Said it would: need to a past tense:
Economical : wrong
Is : wrong tense usage
C. its major challenge is the recently happening economic
Said it would: need to a past tense:
Is : wrong tense usage
D. their major challenges is the recent economic
Their : wrong usage
E. their major challenges had been the recent economical
Their : wrong usage
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Step 1: Understanding Intended Meaning
Stating that one of its major challenges had been the recent economic downturn due to the lockdown,
- • This is an ing modifier- “stating” should be modifying some entity that can “state”
• the “its” should refer to a singular entity
• The past perfect “had been” means we should look out for another event in the simple past tense.
- o So some singular entity has stated that the downturn had been its biggest challenge
- • Okay…so that singular entity is the state government and that other past event is “said”.
- • The state government said that it would start a scheme
- • .The “ed” verbal modifies the scheme.
Intended meaning:
- • According to the state government, the recent economic downturn had been one of its biggest challenges
- o This challenge was due to the lockdown
• This scheme would be based on classifying workers according to their skills and creating jobs to suit them.
Step 2: Eliminate choices with identified errors
Checking for five aspects
- 1. Golden rules
2. Meaning
3. Lists
- a. No error
- a. No error
Eliminate
There are no errors present in Choice A.
Step 3: Evaluate meaning of remaining choices
To be done for Option B, C, D and E. Detailed out below each choice.
Choice A Analysis
Correct and explained in Step 1
Choice B Analysis
Fitting in the original sentence:
Stating that one of its major challenges has been the recent economical downturn due to the lockdown, the state government said it would start a long term local employment generation scheme based on classifying workers according to their skills and creating jobs to suit them.
• If one event is in the past tense “said” , then the other event has to be in the past perfect to show that it happened even before that.
• “economical” means careful with money and is illogical here. We need economic which means related to money.
Incorrect Choice.
Choice C Analysis
Fitting in the original sentence:
Stating that one of its major challenge is the recently happening economic downturn due to the lockdown, the state government said it would start a long term local employment generation scheme based on classifying workers according to their skills and creating jobs to suit them.
• The singular “challenge” does not go with “one of the” which requires a plural noun.
• The present tense “is happening” does not logically fit with the simple past “said”.
Incorrect Choice.
Choice D Analysis
Incorrect and Eliminated in Step 2. Fitting in the original sentence:
Stating that one of their major challenges is the recent economic downturn due to the lockdown, the state government said it would start a long term local employment generation scheme based on classifying workers according to their skills and creating jobs to suit them.
• “Their” has no plural antecedent. It incorrectly refers to the singular “government” -NP pair does not agree in number.
• The present tense “is” does not logically fit with the simple past “said”.
Incorrect Choice.
Choice E Analysis
Fitting in the original sentence:
Stating that one of their major challenges had been the recent economical
downturn due to the lockdown, the state government said it would start a long term local employment generation scheme based on classifying workers according to their skills and creating jobs to suit them.
• Their” has no plural antecedent. It incorrectly refers to the singular “government” -NP pair does not agree in number
• “economical” means careful with money and is illogical here. We need economic which means related to money.
Incorrect Choice.
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