Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentence has been split into five parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error.

After the house was painted, the workers were served lemonade and then ate food.

  1. The workers were served lemonade and then ate food.

  2. lemonade was served to the guests and ate food.

  3. lemonade was served to the guests who then ate food.

  4. workers were served the lemonade and eating food.

  5. workers who then ate good were served lemonade.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The original suffers lack of parallelism (were served…. and …….ate).  (C) corrects faulty parallelism without introducing any new error.

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