Question

Spotting errors in English
1) Despite of
2) his repeated requests
3) the teacher
4) beat him for his mistake.

Answer 1

2) his repeated requests..................

Answer 2

The sentence without error is, Despite his repeated requests, the teacher beat him for his mistake.

• In the given sentence, we gave to spot the error and correct it.
• Despite has the same meaning as 'in spite of'.
• Despite is used for connecting or linking two contrasting ideas. It also shows that one idea surprises the happening of another fact.
• We do not use any prepositions with the word 'despite'. It is grammatically incorrect.

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