English » Spotting Errors
The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
The recently hike / in the price of petroleum products / will hit / household budgets severely.
The recently hike
will hit
household budgets severely
in the price of petroleum products
the error lies in the part A
recently hike should be replaced by recent hike.
recent- something happened just now (adjective)
recently- something happened just now (adverb)
hike is a noun and to qualify this we need an adjective and not a verb
so recent hike is the correct phrase.