SSC CGL Official PYQEnglish Comprehension12 Sep 2025 (Shift 1)
Q.
Question 76:
Find the part of the sentence that contains an error:
What makes the draft legislation especially contentious is not its proposed restructuring of fiscal authority per se, (1)/ but that it assumes, without empirical evidence, (2)/ a fiscal parity among states whose developmental starting points are (3)/ incomparable by any accepted standard. (4)
A
a) (1)
B
b) (2)
C
c) (3)
D
d) (4)
Correct Answer: Option B)
Detailed Step-by-Step Explanation:
The error is in part (2). Instead of ‘but that it assumes’, it should be ‘but its assumption’ or corrected parallelism to match ‘not its proposed restructuring… but its assumption’.