Pls. Find the error on this sentence and tell the reason of your answer.....
The recent symposium on censorship indicated that to refrain with saying or writing something, about others is a form of self censorship.
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The error in the given sentence is underlined:
The recent symposium on censorship indicated that to refrain with saying or writing something, about others is a form of self censorship.
The sentence should be written correctly as shown below:
The recent symposium on censorship indicated that to refrain from saying or writing something, about others is a form of self censorship.
Explanation:
The meaning of refrain is 'to stop yourself from doing something'; and the important point to be kept in mind is REFRAIN IS USUALLY FOLLOWED BY FROM. So, we use 'from' after 'refrain'.
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