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.

I saw Mary step off the pavement, crossing the road and disappear into the post office.

  1. I saw Mary

  2. step off the pavement

  3. crossing the road

  4. disappear into the post office

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

It should be ‘cross the road’. This is an error of parallelism. When the other two elements in the series use infinitives, this element cannot use an–ing form.

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