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mayu

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· 1 Months ago

the police has "made" is not appropriate

Question:

DIRECTIONS: "Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. Mark the part with the error as your answer. If there is no error, mark 'No Error' as your answer. (Ignore the errors of punctuations, if any)"

         

The police has made / a thorough investigation/ into this  mysterious crime / but to no avail so far. / No error 

Options:
A)

The police has made

B)

a thorough investigation

C)

into this  mysterious crime

D)

but to no avail so far.

E)

No error

Solution:

Ans: (a)

There are certain nouns which are always singular or which are always plural regardless of the sentence they are in. The subject and the noun phrase “The police” is always plural and therefore, it should be followed by a plural auxiliary, verb “have”, not the singular verb “has” The correction: The police have made a thorough...”

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Knowledge Expert

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· 1 Months ago

Read the directions properly.

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