Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the statements which are grammatically incorrect.

  1. But the fact did not lesson the glow of pleasure which so good-natured an action had given me.
  2. Nothing clears up our spirits like a fine day.
  3. As a novelist, few can approach Tolstoy in the depth of analysis of man as a social being.
  4. The poet made no apologies for writing a panegyric on unknown soldiers.
  5. No court can administer a law which govern our civilities.

  1. 1 and 3

  2. 2 and 5

  3. 1 and 5

  4. 2, 3 and 5

  5. None of these

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C Correct answer
Explanation

Correct; sentence 1 has the error of incorrect spelling of 'lesson'. The correct spelling here should be 'lessen' meaning 'reduce'. Sentence 5 has the error of subject verb agreement. The noun 'law' is singular, so it should follow the verb in the singular form, i.e. 'governs'.