The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain an error.
Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.
Thirty miles / are / a long way to walk.
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is option 4 i.e. are.
- In the sentence "Thirty miles are a long way to walk," the subject "thirty miles" is treated as a single unit of measurement. Although "miles" is plural, the distance as a whole is considered a singular entity.
- Therefore, the verb should be "is" to match the singular sense of the distance.