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DIRECTIONS: Correct the sentence if required.
The hall was huge; I had never seen a _____ bigger place.

Answer
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Hint: Carefully examine the sentence and focus on the subject, verb and tense. After that, if the sentence seems error free, check if the sentence is properly punctuated or not.

Complete answer: The given sentence in question is supposed to be corrected if needed. Let us examine the sentence.
The hall was huge; I had never seen a bigger place.
Here, we notice that there are no grammatical mistakes. There is no word required before ‘bigger’, as the second part of the sentence indicates the superlative degree of the hall being huge.
However, the sentence can be rephrased to make it less complex and more easy to understand. Let us now rephrase it-
The hall was the biggest place I had ever seen.
This sentence puts forward the view that the hall seen by the speaker was the biggest he’d seen in an easier way.
Thus, the correct answer can be either-
The hall was huge; I had never seen a bigger place.
(no change to the sentence given in question)
OR
The hall was the biggest place I had ever seen.
(After rephrasing the sentence with same implication)

Note: The order of a basic positive sentence is Subject-Verb-Object. Every sentence must have a subject and a verb. An object is optional. Note that an imperative sentence may have a verb only, but the subject is understood.
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