In the following questions five sentences are given with a phrase highlighted.
These phrases may or may not be correct. Following the sentences are four phrases, from which
one phrase will replace the incorrect phrase. The number of that correct phrase will be your
answer. If the phrase is correct then option (e) i.e. “No replacement required” will be your answer.

Yesterday, ahead of Diwali, the Union government announce the Non-Productivity Linked Bonus (Ad-hoc) equivalent to 30 days of emoluments for the accounting year 2018-19.

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In the following questions five sentences are given with a phrase highlighted.
These phrases may or may not be correct. Following the sentences are four phrases, from which
one phrase will replace the incorrect phrase. The number of that correct phrase will be your
answer. If the phrase is correct then option (e) i.e. “No replacement required” will be your answer.

Yesterday, ahead of Diwali, the Union government announce the Non-Productivity Linked Bonus (Ad-hoc) equivalent to 30 days of emoluments for the accounting year 2018-19.

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**Solution:**

1. The sentence refers to an action that happened in the past (yesterday), so the verb must be in the simple past tense.

2. The phrase "government announce" is incorrect because "announce" is present tense.

3. Option (a) "government announces the" is present tense, which is incorrect for a past event.

4. Option (b) "government have announced the" is grammatically incorrect because "government" is a singular noun and requires singular verb form "has" instead of "have".

5. Option (c) "government announced the" correctly uses the simple past tense verb "announced" matching the past time reference.

6. Option (d) "government is announced the" is grammatically incorrect.

7. Option (e) "No replacement required" is incorrect since the original sentence is wrong.

**Answer:** Option (c) "government announced the"

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