The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
The president forced / to leave the country / when the people rose up against / the
government.
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is option 4 i.e. The president forced.
- The error lies in the first part of the given sentence.
- Since the doer for the verb is a third person, the sentence should be in passive voice.
- So, instead of "forced", we should use "was forced".
The correct sentence is:
The president was forced to leave the country when the people rose up against the
government.