Read the sentence and find out whether there is an error in any of its underlined parts (A), (B) or (C). If there is no error, choose (E) ‘None of the above’.
Read the sentence and find out whether there is an error in any of its underlined parts (A), (B) or (C). If there is no error, choose (E) ‘None of the above’.
By the time | we reached there, | she left.
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Correct answer: (C) she left.
Explanation
With ‘by the time’ + past tense, the earlier action takes the past perfect: ‘she had left’. The error is in part (C).