Direction: The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.

The historians / are a great / asset to the / field of academia.

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SSC CGL 2023 Tier-I Official Paper (Held On: 24 Jul 2023 Shift 3)

Answer 1

Here, the erroneous part is "The historians."

Key Points

The error lies in the part "The historians."
The definite article 'the' is used before a noun when one is referring to something specific.
In the given sentence, using 'the' before 'historians' would suggest that the speaker is referring to a specific group of historians that have already been mentioned or are known to both speaker and listener.
However, when we want to speak generally about all people in a certain group,we should use 'historians' without an article ('the'), similar to how we use 'people' without an article when talking about people in general.

Therefore, the correct answer is Option 4.

Correct sentence: Historians are a great asset to the field of academia.