Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error.
Miss Marple is neither a good singer or the good stage artist.
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is option 4 i.e. or the good.
- The error in the sentence is related to conjunctions and articles.
- The correlative conjunction comes in the pair 'neither…nor'.
- We use neither…nor when talking about two or more things that are not true or that do not happen.
- Also, since the first noun (singer) is preceded by a, the second noun (stage artist) should be preceded by a.
- Hence, 'or the' should be replaced with 'nor a'.
The correct sentence will be: Miss Marple is neither a good singer nor a good stage artist.