Question
Download Solution PDFSelect the grammatically correct sentence.
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is "The participants of the competition are waiting for their turn curiously."
Key Points
- The subject "participants" is plural, so the verb should also be plural.
- Thus, we will eliminate the options 2, 3 and 4.
- Also, "curiously" is an adverb describing how the participants are waiting.
- Thus, it can be concluded that the sentence in option 1 is grammatically correct.
- The sentence in option 1 has correct subject-verb agreement and proper use of adverb.
Hence, the correct answer is option 1.
Additional Information
- Option 2 is incorrect because "participants" is plural and "has been waiting" is singular.
- Option 3 is incorrect because "a participants" is grammatically incorrect. It should be "a participant" or "participants".
- Option 4 is incorrect because "participants" is plural and "is waiting" is singular.
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