Multiple choice

Directions: The following question tests your ability to recognize grammar and usage errors. The sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. No sentence contains more than one error. The error, if there is one, is underlined and lettered. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence is correct, select choice (E). In choosing answers follow the requirements of standard written English.

Clothes make the man, as they say; but (A) trying to increase one's own value (B) by dressing in fine clothes is a (C) way of advertising (D) your own worthlessness. (E) No error

  1. (A)

  2. (B)

  3. (C)

  4. (D)

  5. (E)

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

This part of the sentence bears error of shift of pronoun. Replace ‘your’ by ‘one’s’ to correct the error of shifting pronoun. One is always followed by the possessive ‘one’s’.