Question
Download Solution PDFDirection: Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. If there is no error, select ‘No error.’
He spent a great deal of time / writing on his legal pad and aggressive / underlining whatever he was writing.
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFHere, the erroneous part is "writing on his legal pad and aggressive."
- The error lies in the part "aggressive."
- The word "aggressive" should be changed to "aggressively" to properly modify the action of underlining.
- "Aggressively" is used to modify the verb "underlining" to show how he underlined the text, and the sentence flows more smoothly.
- The correct answer is Option 1.
Correct sentence: He spent a great deal of time writing on his legal pad and aggressively underlining whatever he was writing.
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