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SSC CHSL 2022 · PYQ · Spotting Errors · medium

The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. After / a long and fun-filled day, / the children / slept themselves peacefully.

  1. A.a long and fun-filled day
  2. B.the children
  3. C.slept themselves peacefully✓ Correct
  4. D.After

Explanation

'Slept themselves peacefully' is grammatically incorrect because 'sleep' is an intransitive verb and cannot take a reflexive pronoun. It should simply be 'slept peacefully'.
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