Question
Download Solution PDFThe following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
The boy, as well as / his friends, were / absent from the class / when the teacher came.
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is 'his friends, were'.
Key Points
- The given sentence is grammatically incorrect.
- Here, 'his friends, was' should be used instead of 'his friends, were'.
- The given sentence is an example of subject-verb agreement.
- The subject of the sentence is "The boy" and the verb should agree with this subject.
- However, in this segment, the verb "were" is in the plural form, which does not agree with the singular subject "The boy".
- The correct verb form to use in this case is "was", which agrees with the singular subject.
- Thus, the correct answer is Option 3.
Correct Sentence: The boy, as well as his friends, was absent from the class when the teacher came.
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