CDS 2026 (I) English, question 113

Topic: Spotting errors

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Directions · Q111 to Q115

Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to determine whether there is an error in any underlined part and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. If there is no error, indicate your response as (d).

Q113

The pair of trousers you bought for me do not fit me.

  1. (a) The pair of trousers
  2. (b) you bought for me
  3. (c) do not fit me.Correct answer
  4. (d) No error.

Solution.

Answer: (c) do not fit me.

  1. The subject's head is the singular pair, not the plural trousers inside the of-phrase.
  2. Therefore do not must become does not.
  3. Correction: “The pair of trousers you bought for me does not fit me.”