Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the statement(s) which is/are grammatically incorrect.

  1. When you speak to him, remember to who you are speaking.
  2. I wish we had killed and stained every germ in the universe.
  3. One bold bee, having evaded capture, sought to tempt the boy.
  4. If it were not so, the institution of the family could not survive in any great modern city.
  5. We were happy to be in Tolstoy's study, where he wrote many of his famous novels.

  1. Both 1 and 2

  2. Both 3 and 5

  3. Both 2 and 4

  4. Both 1 and 5

  5. Only 1

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E Correct answer
Explanation

Correct; sentence 1 has the error of relative pronoun. The person to be spoken to is the object of the sentence. So, the pronoun should be in objective form 'whom'.

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