The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
The crew / of sailors / were not perturbed / by the strong gale.
The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
The crew / of sailors / were not perturbed / by the strong gale.
were not perturbed
were not perturbed
by the strong gale
by the strong gale
of sailors
of sailors
The crew
The crew
Correct Answer:
were not perturbed
were not perturbed
option A has error in it.
were not perturbed should be replaced with was not Perturbed.
crew is a singular noun and hence needs a singilar verb to qualify this, that is was and not were.
