Directions: Identify the segment in the sentence, which contains the grammatical error. Despite of her tiredness, Meera went into the kitchen to make some dinner for the children.

Explanation

The correct answer is "Despite of her tiredness" . Key Points In the given sentence, the use of the preposition 'of' is incorrect or superfluous . The phrase " despite of " is incorrect , and sounds distinctly non-native . We can confuse it with "in spite of " which basically has the same meaning as ' despite '. We should use only ' despite 'instead of "despite of ". The word ' despite ' is a preposition which takes a noun as its object , and doesn't require the preposition 'of' . Hence , the correct answer is option 3 . Correct Sentence : Despite her tiredness, Meera went into the kitchen to make some dinner for the children . Additional Information The word ' despite ' means without being affected by; in spite of .