The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
Bill was looking impatient / at the useless guest / who showed / no signs of leaving the room.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. Bill was looking impatient.
The adjective 'impatient' describes a state, and after looking, it should be modified with an adverb to describe how Bill was looking.
The correct phrase should be 'Bill was looking impatiently' (adverb form) to indicate his manner of looking.
The other segments are grammatically correct:
at the useless guest – correct prepositional phrase.
who showed – correct verb form.
no signs of leaving the room – correct noun phrase.