Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentence has been broken in three parts (A), (B) and (C). If there is any grammatical error in any of these parts, that is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (D).

In the nursery school, (A)/ a child is taught how to read, (B)/ how to write and to speak. (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 an error. This sentence violates the rule of parallelism. Whatever grammatical form is applied to one item, must be applied to all. Hence,’ how to read, how to write’ is correct but ‘to speak’ should be ‘how to speak’.

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