Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentence may contain an error. You have to find that part of the sentence which contains the error. If there are no errors, choose ‘No error’ as your answer. The judge paid a lot of attention to that the master had abused the boy both physically and emotionally.

  1. the judge paid

  2. a lot of attention

  3. attention to that

  4. master had abused

  5. no error
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

It should be ‘attention to the fact that’. We cannot put a that-clause immediately after a preposition. In this case, we use the expression ‘the fact’ between the preposition and the that-clause.

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