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Find out whether there is any grammatical error in below sentence.
I could not convince them / because they persisted to suggest / that I was lying.

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Correct Answer: Option B
because they persisted in suggesting
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Mrakash319
Mrakash319 6 years ago
actually persisted is that action word which is self-satisfactory and complete has meaning in itself so it is unnecessary to use persisted to suggest or persisted in suggesting.
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