Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’.
When I was a child I do not like going out to play in the park.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is option 1, i.e. did not like.
- Option 1 is the correct answer because the sentence talks about the past (when the narrator was a child). To represent the past 'did not like' is the correct phrase to be used, whereas 'do not like' denotes the present, which ultimately contradicts the sentence's meaning.
- Option 2 is incorrect because we cannot use plural after 'don't'. The option also doesn't refer to the past tense.
- Option 3, no improvement is not the correct answer.
- Option 4, 'did not liked' is incorrect because 'liked' is incorrectly used with 'did not'. The correct word would have been 'like'.