Direction: Improve the underlined part of the sentence. Choose 'No improvement' as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct.

Even in time of natural disasters, the farmers had to pay their share of taxes.

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  1. times of natural
  2. timer of natural
  3. times of naturally
  4. No improvement

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Option 1 : times of natural
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The correct answer is "times of natural."

 Key Points

  • Time refers to the amount of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, years, decades, centuries, millennia and so on. This noun is uncountable.
  • Times refers to the number of occurrences. 
    • Example: I know her from college times.
  • 'Natural' is an adjective modifying 'disasters' and does not need any modification.
  • The correct answer is Option 1.
     

Correct sentenceEven in times of natural disasters, the farmers had to pay their share of taxes.

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