Question

Identify if the given statement is correct or incorrect. Choose the correction from the options given below:
There was a police standing at the corner of the street.

• A. a police station
• B. a police officer
• C. The given option is correct
  
• D. a policemen
  

Answer 1

The correct option is B a police officer

Let’s examine the sentence: “There was a police standing at the corner of the street.” The mention of ‘police’ does not indicate anything and prevents sentence from making any sense. Just ‘police’ can mean ‘police officer’ or ‘police van’ or ‘police station’ or anything else related to police. So the sentence a to specifically state what ‘police’ means here. Now, the sentence states that police-related entity was ‘standing at the corner of the street,’ and so we can assume that it would be a police officer only. Option D cannot be used here as the sentence is using verb of singular noun and ‘policemen’ in this option is plural noun. Option A cannot be used as the clause ‘standing at the corner of the street’ cannot be used for a police station. Hence, Option B is the correct answer.