The following sentence has been split into segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.
He missed the college bus / because he woke up / unpardonably lately in the morning.
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. unpardonably lately in the morning.
Error concept: Wrong use of adverb.
What is wrong: The phrase “unpardonably lately” is incorrect. “Lately” is used for recent time, not for specific time in the morning. The correct adverb here should be “late.”
Grammatical concept: To indicate being late for something, we use late, not lately.
Incorrectness of the concept in context: Using “lately” makes the sentence grammatically wrong and changes the intended meaning.
How to correct: Replace “unpardonably lately” with unpardonably late.
Correct phrase/ correction: unpardonably late in the morning
Final sentence: He missed the college bus because he woke up unpardonably late in the morning.
Hence, the chosen option is correct.