Question

Find out the error in the following sentence, if any. If there is no error, mark your answer, as “E”.
I know that eventually (A) he will succumb to me (B) and confess that he (C) has committed a crime. No error. (E)
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) E

Answer 1

Hint: The subject, verb, and object should all match with each other. The plurality of the verb should also align with the given subject.

Complete answer:
In order to find the error in the given sentence, we must first understand how sentences are constructed. We must identify the different parts of speech in the given sentence.
The most basic construction in English is ‘subject + verb + object’. However, it becomes more complicated when other parts of speech come into play. We can add describing words such as adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions. Adjectives are usually placed before a noun and adverbs are usually placed before an adjective or verb.

Let’s look at the given sentence: The first part of the sentence contains the words ‘I know that eventually’. The verb matches the subject, the determiner and the adverb match each other. The second part of the sentence contains the words ‘he will succumb to me’. This entire sentence is perfectly constructed. The third part of the sentence says ‘and confess that he’. This also makes perfect sense with the context after it in the fourth part, which is also correctly constructed.

Now, look at the given options-
option ‘a’ - This part of the sentence aligns with everything perfectly and all clauses are
correctly placed. This is not the required answer. So, this is an incorrect option.
option ‘b’ - This part of the sentence aligns with everything perfectly and all clauses are
correctly placed. This is not the required answer. So, this is an incorrect option.
option ‘c’ - This part of the sentence aligns with everything perfectly and all clauses are
correctly placed. This is not the required answer. So, this is an incorrect option.
option ‘d’ - This part of the sentence also aligns with everything perfectly and all clauses are correctly placed. This is not the required answer. So, this is an incorrect option.
option ‘e’ - This is the correct option as we have found no error in the given sentence.

Note:
Dissect the sentence and go through parts of the sentence separately, and see if there are any errors to be worth noting. There is also a possibility of having no errors.