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NDA 2019 GAT · English · Spotting Errors · medium

(a) All the furnitures in (b) the old library (c) were donated by alumni.

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Find the part of the sentence that has an error. If there is none, choose 'No error'.
(a) All the furnitures in
(b) the old library
(c) were donated by alumni.
  1. A. (a)
  2. B. (b)
  3. C. (c)
  4. D. No error
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Answer: (A) (a)

'Furniture' is uncountable and has no plural form, so 'furnitures' is wrong. The correct phrase is 'All the furniture in the old library was donated', though the verb choice is not the tested point here.
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