Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentence has been broken in three parts (A), (B) and (C). If there is any grammatical error in any of these parts, that is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (D).

At the birthday party, (A)/ Riya ate burger, had fries (B)/ and was drinking Coke. (C)/ No error (D).

  1. (A)

  2. (B)

  3. (C)

  4. (D)

  5. .
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C Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct option as this part of the sentence has the error. In this sentence, there are two singular simple past tense verbs (ate and had) and one singular past progressive verb (was drinking). To make all the verbs match, ‘was drinking’ should be changed to ‘drank’ (simple past tense).

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