Verbal Ability - Spotting Errors - Discussion

Discussion Forum : Spotting Errors - Section 1 (Q.No. 6)
Directions to Solve

Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).


6.

(solve as per the direction given above)

A lot of travel delay is caused
due to the inefficiency and lack of good management
on behalf of the railways.
No error.
Answer: Option
Explanation:
on the part of the railways
Discussion:
93 comments Page 8 of 10.

Neeraj Bhatt said:   1 decade ago
We use 'on the behalf of' for favorable things or for good things. We do not use this for errors and for wrong things. For example. He kidnapped me on the behalf of Don. This sentence is wrong. In above sentence the same thing is happening that's why 'on the behalf is wrong' in that sentence.

Honey said:   1 decade ago
Why isn't it 'a lot of travel delays are caused'? 'a lot' is plural, right?

Also, it is OK to say 'from the part of'?

Kumar said:   1 decade ago
What is the difference b/w on part of & behalf of?

Anurag said:   1 decade ago
I think it is more appropriate using "most of" instead of using "A lot of".

I think on behalf of is generally used to give the idea that something is done because it should be done.

But there should not be delay but it happens.

So we can think it as "part of".

So on part of is more correct.

Soujanya said:   1 decade ago
"On behalf of" refers to persons and "on part of" refers to something else other than persons.

Prabhath said:   1 decade ago
On behalf of is used 'to represent someone' or 'for someone'..

On the part of is used for 'to represent who is responsible for the cause or action'....

In the above question since railway is responsible for the cause we could us 'on the part of' ....

Kalaivani said:   1 decade ago
Its confusing me. Please tell me exactly where to use 'on behalf of' with an example?

Dev said:   1 decade ago
"On behalf of Railway" is not correct. If it were "On behalf of railway Authority", then it may took as correct one.

Priya said:   1 decade ago
'on behalf of' is used when someone is representing something for somebody else which could be an individual or an organisation consisting of many people.

Rajan said:   1 decade ago
In which area we use "behalf of the " explain me with 5 suitable example.


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