Verbal Ability - Spotting Errors - Discussion

"Await" is used when we want to spotlight a particular object or talking about an object.

Like here "the chief guest".

Understand it like this- Await itself contain a "for", so we need not to use 'for' with 'await'.

E.G- The students were 'awaiting' the arrival of 'the chief guest'.

Here "the chief guest" is an object (ie. We are not talking about Ram, Shyam, Mohan etc. Specifically. ).

More clearly;.
E.G1 Sandip awaited me. (Incorrect) {because "me" is not an object. "me" here is a specific person}.
E.G2 Sandip waited for me. (Correct).
E.G1 The students were "awaiting" the arrival of "the chief guest". (correct).
E.G2 The students were "waiting for" the arrival of the chief guest "Mr. Narendra Damodardas Modi". (correct).

Await means wait for substitute the terms 'wait for' instead of await. The sentence turns out to be like this students were waiting for for the arrival of chief guest. These are called errors of redundancy. The same will follow the verbs like

Return=come back.

Revert=send back.

Discuss=talk about.

After awaiting you can't use "for" and after waiting we must use"for"waiting - definition
adjective
that waits
of or for a wait
that serves or is in attendance

awaiting - definition
transitive verb
to wait for; expect
to be in store for; be ready for

Although "waiting for" is acceptable, "awaiting for" is not because "await" means "wait for". Writing "await for" would be redundant.

When sending letters by mail, you likely want to be as formal as possible. "Kindly awaiting your approval" would fit this purpose.

Actually we can express the waiting for in a single word awaiting.

Awaiting for is not perfect. Those are not agree with me then they have to think that waiting for and awaiting for both could not be same isn't it.

So, the answer will be Option B.

The actual meaning for awaiting is waiting for.

But there is a difference between the usage of both the letters.
For the usage of awaiting an object is not necessary. i.e I am awaiting you.
For the usage of waiting there should be an object.

Here students were expecting chief guest but they were not waiting for the chief guest. Wait means to delay that action or event before someone arrive this sentence is telling just the state that students are expecting to see chief minister.

@all. The given answer is correct. There are some verbs in active sentence after which no preposition will be there.

Like this book comprises of ten chapters (incorrect).

This book comprises ten chapters --correct.

The verb to await is often used in formal, written contexts, particularly at the end of the business correspondence. It means the same as wait for but we use await + direct object (without the word for).

Await is a formal word and mostly used with abstract objects. Unlike wait, it does not take the preposition for..

1- We are still awaiting instructions.
2- Back then, I was awaiting my result.