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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.

A

The recently hike 

B

will hit

C

household budgets severely

D

in the price of petroleum products

Solution

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.