Question

Identify and correct the errors in the following sentence:
a. He has grey hairs.
b. The view were enchanting.
c. I took a umbrella with me.
d. As the child fell down so it started crying.
e. Suba is the tallest girls in the class.

Answer 1

Hint: Read the sentences thoroughly and see which words seem to be out of place and check for grammatical accuracy.

Complete step by step solution: In the given question, we have a set of questions and we need to correct the errors in each of the given sentences.
Let us take a look at each sentence.
In sentence ‘a’, the usage of the word ‘hairs’ is incorrect. In English, the word hair is used to refer to the collective and if you need to specify, phrases such as ‘a single hair’ or ‘a strand of hair’ must be used.
'In sentence ‘b’, the word ‘were’ is incorrect as it is in plural but the sentence is in the third person singular. Hence, the word ‘was’ must be used instead.
In sentence ‘c’, the article ‘a’ is incorrect as the word that follows it, ‘umbrella’, starts with a vowel and hence ‘an’ must be used.
In sentence ‘d’, the usage of ‘as’ and ‘so’ is incorrect as it cannot be used together. We can either use ‘as’ by inserting a comma after the word ‘down’ and removing ‘so’ or we can use ‘so’ by removing ‘as’.
In sentence ‘e’, the word ‘girls’ is incorrect as the subject is singular and hence, it must also be in its singular form, ‘girl’.

Note: Each of the given sentences has a different error, so do not try to find the same error in all the sentences as each of them are different.