Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
Do you know where does she reside?
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. where she resides?
Error is related to: Subject-verb inversion in indirect questions.
What is wrong: The original sentence “Do you know where does she reside?” incorrectly uses question word order in an indirect question.
Grammatical concept: In indirect questions, we use statement word order, i.e., subject + verb, not verb + subject.
Incorrectness of the concept in context: “Where does she reside?” is correct in a direct question, but after “Do you know”, we must follow statement word order: “where she resides”.
How to correct: We remove the auxiliary “does” and use the present tense form of the verb (resides) after the subject (she).
Correction: where she resides
Final sentence: Do you know where she resides