In the following sentence, four words or phrases have been underlined. Choose the word or phrase which is not appropriate in standard written English. If the sentence has no error, mark (4).

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Neither the

file copies nor the original, which was

sent on 10th June were found.

NO ERROR

answer is C.

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Detailed Solution

The given sentence ‘Neither the file copies nor the original, which was sent on 10th June were found’ is in the simple past tense.
Now let’s see the options given:
1)      Neither the: here, the use of ‘the’ in the given sentence is correct.
2)      file copies nor the original, which was: use of ‘which’ and ‘was’ in the given sentence is correct as we are talking about the past in the sentence.
3)      sent on 10th June were found: ‘were’ is used in a second person singular form and first and third person plural form. So instead of ‘were’, we should use ‘was’ as the given sentence is in the simple past tense.
Therefore the correct option is option 3 and the correct sentence will be ‘Neither the file copies nor the original, which was sent on 10th June was found’.

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