Directions: The sentence is underlined in four separate parts and is labelled a, b, c and d. Read the sentence and find the error. (d) signifies no error.

(a) Being a youngster, he likes to (b) race cars, swim and (c) to ride fast motorcycles. (d) No error.

Here, (c) is incorrect. In this sentence, there are a list of infinitive verbs – race cars, swim and fast motorcycles. With infinitives, the word ‘to’ must either go only before the first verb in the list or before every verb in the list. So, accordingly the correct sentence should be, “Being a youngster, he likes to race, swim and ride fast motorcycles.