English » Spotting Errors

The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain a grammatical error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.

They ordered the whole area / to be disinfected / on the earliest.

A

No error

B

on the earliest

C

to be disinfected

D

They ordered the whole area

Solution

option B  has the erroneous part here,

on the earliest should be replaced with on the earlier.

on the earlier means;

happening or done before the usual or expected time.

"we ate our lunch earlier"