The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
Every word and every line / in the works of John Keats / express his appreciation / of nature’s beauty.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is option 1 i.e. express his appreciation.
- In this sentence, the subject is a compound subject consisting of "every word" and "every line."
- The verb used is "express," which is in the singular form. However, the subject is plural (combining "every word" and "every line").
- There is a subject-verb agreement error because the verb should agree in number with the subject.
- To correct the subject-verb agreement error, the verb "express" is changed to its plural form, which is "express."
- The corrected sentence uses "their" to refer to the plural subject "every word and every line."
So correct sentence is;
"Every word and every line in the works of John Keats express their appreciation of nature’s beauty."