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The sentence is cut into four parts and one part breaks a rule of grammar. Read the whole sentence once for its meaning. Then test it in a fixed order instead of trusting your ear: subject and verb, tense, pronoun, preposition, article and noun form, comparison.
The errors set in CSS papers come from a short list, and most of them are habits carried over from Urdu: an extra preposition after a verb, a plural or article on an uncountable noun, a continuous form of a state verb, or the wrong partner in a fixed pair.
Mark a part only when you can name the rule it breaks and say how to correct it.
Marking a part only because it sounds formal or unusual. Inverted forms such as 'Hardly had he' or 'Never have I' are correct; look for the part that breaks a rule you can name.
Answer: The second part, 'explained us'; it should read 'explained to us'.
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