In this question, the sentence is broken into four parts. Find out the error part in the sentence from the given options and mark…

Question

In this question, the sentence is broken into four parts. Find out the error part in the sentence from the given options and mark your answer.

Yesterday, the wild animal destroyed (a)/ crops at a nascent stage (b)/ and cause huge losses (c)/ to the farmers (d).

1. A. Yesterday, The wild animal destroyed
2. B. crops at a nascent stage
3. C. and cause huge losses (Correct answer)
4. D. to the farmers

Correct Answer

Option C — and cause huge losses

Detailed Solution & Explanation

The correct answer is and cause huge losses.

Key Points

• The sentence describes a completed past event, signalled by "Yesterday" and the past-tense verb destroyed.
• Two verbs joined by and must agree in tense, so cause should be caused.
• This is an error of parallelism — coordinated verbs must take the same form.
• The remaining parts are grammatically sound.

Additional Information

• The rule being tested is parallelism: verbs joined by *and*, *or* or *but* must share the same tense and form — *destroyed and caused*, not *destroyed and cause*.
• Parallelism applies beyond verbs, to lists of nouns, adjectives and phrases alike: *She likes reading, writing and painting*, never *reading, writing and to paint*.
• In JKSSB spotting-error questions, the highest-yield checks in order are subject-verb agreement, tense consistency, prepositions, articles and parallel structure.