Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentence is divided into four parts and is numbered (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5). Select the part which has the error. If there is no error, choose no. 5.

When I phoned her last week, (1)/ she said that (2)/ she will be arriving this morning(3)/ but she hasn't turned up (4)./ No error (5).

  1. 1

  2. 2

  3. 3

  4. 4

  5. 5
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Correct; here the mistake is of tense. The reporting verb 'said' is in past tense, so all the following verbs should be in past tense. Hence, the correction will read 'would'.

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