Question

Read the sentence to find out whether there is an error in any underlined part.
(a) When the dentist came in
(b) my tooth was stopped aching
(c) out of fear that I might lose my tooth.
A.a
B. b
C. c
D. No error

Answer 1

Hint:Composing and talking in English as a non-local speaker has its arrangement of issues. Grammatical mistakes come in numerous structures and can undoubtedly befuddle and cloud meaning.
Some basic blunders are with prepositions, in particular, subject action word understanding, tenses, accentuation, spelling, and different grammatical forms.

Complete answer:
We should inspect the sentence: "When the dentist came in my tooth was stopped aching out of fear that I might lose my tooth."
The sentence is expressing straightforward realities thus it is in the simple past tense.
Presently, as "stopped" itself is the verb of simple past tense, it doesn't need the aiding verb "was" and can be utilized alone in the sentence.
Subsequently, the right sentence would be,
"When the dentist came in my tooth stopped aching out of fear that I might lose my tooth."

Part (b) of the sentence has the error so the correct answer is Option B.

Note:The simple past tense, once in a while called the preterite, is utilized to discuss a finished activity in a period before now. The simple past is the fundamental type of past tense in English. The hour of the activity can be in the new past or the far off past and the activity span isn't significant.
You generally utilize the simple past when you state when something occurred, so it is related to sure past time articulations.