Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, a sentence has been divided into three parts labelled (A), (B) and (C). Select the part having an error. If there is no error, then mark (D) as your answer.

On Sunday, Tom wrote his diary, (A)/ read a book and (B)/ was watching his favourite movie. (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. Here, ‘wrote’ and ‘read’ are in simple past tense, but ‘was watching’ is in past progressive tense, which violates the rule of parallelism. Thus, to make the sentence grammatically correct, ‘was watching’ (past progressive) should be changed to ‘watched’ (simple past).