Question

The plans for building the new house were approved by the couple.
Choose the option that best corrects the underlined words.

• A. house, were
• B. house - were
• C. house were,
• D. NO CHANGE

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

NO CHANGE

Option A - We use commas to separate two or more items, or it is used to indicate pauses in a sentence. As there are no pauses and items to separate between 'house' and 'were', we will not use commas here. Thus option A is incorrect.

Option B - We use a hyphen to join two words that make up a word. For example - 'Short-term goals'. As 'house-were' doesn't make a word, we can't use a hyphen here. Thus option B is incorrect.

Option C - We use commas to separate two or more items, or it is used to indicate pauses in a sentence. As there are no pauses and items to separate between 'were' and 'approved', we will not use commas here. Thus option A is incorrect.

Option D - There won't be any punctuations in the middle of the sentence as it has no complex words and clauses. Thus option D is the correct answer.

'The plans for building the new house were approved by the couple.'