Question : Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. If there is no error, select 'No error'.

Hearing those words / from his mouth, was / hard than I thought.

Option 1: hard than I thought.

Option 2: No error

Option 3: Hearing those words

Option 4: from his mouth, was


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Answer (1)
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Correct Answer: hard than I thought.


Solution : The error lies in the first option.

Explanation : The correct comparative form of the adjective "hard" is "harder". In this context, a comparison is being made between the difficulty of hearing those words from his mouth and the speaker's initial perception.

So, the corrected sentence would be: "Hearing those words from his mouth was harder than I thought ."

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