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Analyze the following advanced sentence for syntactic precision, prepositional collocation, and structural agreement across its constituent clauses:"Hardly had the multinational corporation announced its aggressive quarterly expansion targets when several prominent labor unions objected against the proposed wage freezes, arguing that such unilateral measures violated the collective bargaining agreements stipulated in the national labor code."Identify which of the underlined segments contains a grammatical error according to standard English syntax.
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Detailed Explanation
The underlined segment "objected against" contains a grammatical error. In standard English, the verb "object" requires the preposition "to" rather than "against" (i.e., *to object to something*). Additionally, the correlative pairing "Hardly... when" in the opening clause is syntactically correct, involving inversion of the auxiliary verb "had" before the subject. For further reading on standard usage and prepositional collocations, consult the Wikipedia Reference on English usage.
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