Question : Directions: In the following question, some parts of the sentence have errors, and some are correct. Find out which part of the sentence has an error. The number of that part is the answer. If a sentence is error-free, your answer is "No Error".
The artist, plainly a better critic (1) / than a painter, destroyed what (2) / he made over for ten years. (3) / No Error (4)
Option 1: 1
Option 2: 2
Option 3: 3
Option 4: 4
Correct Answer: 3
Solution : The error lies in the third part of the sentence.
The correct usage is, " he had made over ten years".
This is because the action of making the paintings took place before the action of destroying them. In the sentence, the past perfect tense should be used to express an action that happened before another action in the past.
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