Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentence has four parts marked (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E). One of the parts may contain an error and if so, identify the part that contains the error and choose the letter corresponding to that part from the given options. If the sentence does not contain any error, mark (E) as your answer.

At first, I was looking (A)/ for a warm sweater (B)/ for myself, but I (C)/ ended buying a jacket. (D)/ No error (E)

  1. (A)

  2. (B)

  3. (C)

  4. (D)

  5. (E)
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D Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct option as this part of the sentence has the error. In this part of the sentence, ‘ended up’ should be used in place of ‘ended’. ‘Ended up’ is used to talk about something that eventually happened after other things had happened.

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