The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
Binay said that /he is coming / from /his village, Jaygarh.
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. he is coming.
Error concept: Reported speech (sequence of tenses)
What is wrong: In the sentence, 'he is coming' is incorrectly used.
Grammatical concept: When the reporting verb is in past tense, the reported speech usually shifts back one tense — here, “he is coming” should become “he was coming.”
Incorrectness of the concept in context: Mixing past tense with present continuous creates a mismatch. The sentence uses past tense (“Binay said”) but wrongly switches to present continuous (“he is coming”) in reported speech.
How to correct: Change “is coming” to “was coming”.
Correction: he was coming
Final sentence: Binay said that he was coming from his village, Jaygarh.