The following sentence has been divided into parts. Select the part that contains the error:

"He lived close to / the train station, / yet travelled by bus."

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The following sentence has been divided into parts. Select the part that contains the error:"He lived close to / the train station, / yet travelled by bus."

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The correct answer is No error. Explanation:The complete sentence—"He lived close to the train station, yet travelled by bus."—is grammatically correct."He lived close to": Correct use of the prepositional phrase "close to" indicating proximity."the train station,": Correct noun phrase acting as the object of the preposition."yet travelled by bus.": Correct use of the conjunction "yet" to show contrast, followed by the past tense verb "travelled" (maintaining tense agreement with "lived") and the correct preposition for modes of transport ("by bus").

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yet travelled by bus

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He lived close to

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the train station

The following sentence has been divided into parts. Select the part that contains the error:

"He lived close to / the train station, / yet travelled by bus."

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