Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentence has been split into four parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error. If there is no error, select (5).

  1. For the teenager,

  2. who had lost his mother immediately after his birth,

  3. both his mother and his father

  4. have been John and John alone.

  5. No error
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D Correct answer
Explanation

John has served both as mother and father, and John is singular, which will take singular verb 'has been'.

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