In the following sentence, some of the parts have errors and some have none. Find out which part of the sentence has an error:

The steep rise in the price of petroleum products (A) have affected (B) the economic development of the developing nation (C) no error (D).

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answer is B.

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Detailed Solution

The subject in the given sentence ‘steep rise’ is singular, so the tense should also be singular.
From the given options, Option 1 and option 3 does not indicate any wrong part in the sentence.
Option 2 ‘have affected’ is incorrect since the tense should be singular here. So we should use ‘has affected’ in the sentence.
Therefore, the correct option is option 2 i.e. ‘B’ and the correct sentence will be ‘The steep rise in the price of petroleum products has affected the economic development of the developing nation’.

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