Question

Identify and correct the errors in the following sentence:

(a) He has grey hairs.
(b) The view were enchanting.
(c) I took a umbrella with me.
(d) As the child fell down so it started crying.
(e) Suba is the tallest girls in the class.

Answer 1

The errors in the given sentences are-

[a] 'hairs' is wrong. Hair is a collective noun and there's no other plural form for it. The correct sentence is-

He has grey hair.

[b] use of 'were' is ungrammatical and incorrect. 'View' is singular and requires the singular past form 'was' not the plural past 'were'. The correct answer is-

The view was enchanting.

[c] The 'u' in 'umbrella' makes a vowel sound therefore it requires the article 'an' and not 'a'. The correct sentence is-

I took an umbrella with me.

[d] The use 'as' makes the use of 'so' redundant. The correct sentence is-

As the child fell down it started crying.

[e] As we are specifically talking about one girl here, the plural 'girls' is incorrect. The correct sentence is-

Suba is the tallest girl in the class.