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 is no error, choose ‘No error’ as your answer.

I found this bangle while digging in the backyard and I don’t know who it belonged to.

  1. i found

  2. while digging in

  3. in the backyard

  4. who it belonged to

  5. No error
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

It should be ‘to whom it belonged’. The sentence should read: I don’t know to whom it belonged. When the relative pronoun is the object of the relative clause, we use ‘whom’ instead of ‘who’. Note that in this case, the preposition normally goes before ‘whom’.

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