Instructions

Choose the part of the sentence that contains a grammatical error. Ignore errors in punctuation. Choose option 5 if there is no error.

Question 15

She spent the afternoon (1) / cleaning the study, (2) / dusting the shelves and (3) / arranged the books. (4) / No Error (5)

Solution

The sentence has a parallelism error. The last verb should also have been in the -ing form. Hence, the sentence should have been “She spent the afternoon cleaning the study, dusting the shelves and arranging the books.”

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