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.

The director tried to (A)/ describe to the actor the scene, (B)/ but the actor (C)/ was not listening. (D)/ No error (E)

  1. (A)

  2. (B)

  3. (C)

  4. (D)

  5. (E)
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B Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct option as this part of the sentence has the error. Verbs like ‘describe’ take ‘describe + what + to whom’ form. But here, it is ‘describe + to whom + what’ form. The correct sentence should include ‘describe the scene to the actor’.

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