Question

Identify the part of a sentence which is grammatically incorrect:

[A] We were not worried about being late
[B] since we knew that our other friends
[C] would have been caught in a worse traffic jam
[D] than us

• A. A
• B. B
• C. C
• D. D
• E. No Error

Answer 1

The correct option is C C

In the sentence, the narrator is sighting a reason for not being worried inspite of getting late. The sentence is talking about the simple past which is indicated by the phrase 'were not worried'. Part [C] of the sentence is using past perfect tense to describe the reason of a clause in the simple past tense. A past perfect tense is used to indicate an occurrence that happened before another one. But, when a simple past tense is sighted, the reason must also be in simple past tense. The correct option therefore, is option (C).