Question

Identify the errors in the following sentence and select the correct option :
I am gonna get five onions six potatoes, and ten peas at the store.

a) I am gonna get five onions, six potatoes, and ten peas at the store.
b) I am gonna get five onions, six potatoes and ten peas at the store.
c) I am going to get five onions, six potatoes, and ten peas at the store.
d) I gonna get five onions, six potatoes, and ten peas at the store.

Answer 1

Hint: The sentence is grammatically correct, the only mistake made here is of a punctuation mark. Punctuation marks play an important role in English Grammar.

Complete answer:
There is a comma missing in the given sentence, which leads it to be an incorrect sentence. We will have to find out the one with all the correct punctuation marks from among the given options. Punctuation is the use of spacing, conventional signs, and certain typographical devices as aids to the understanding and correct reading of written texts, whether read silently or aloud. Here, the usage of “gonna” is making the sentences too informal, so we'll go with “going to” in option ‘c’.
Now, let us examine all the given options and find out the correct answer :
Option ‘a’ is I am gonna get five onions, six potatoes, and ten peas at the store. In this sentence, the punctuation marks are correctly placed but “gonna” is an informal word, hence, this is not the correct option.
Option ‘b’ is I am gonna get five onions, six potatoes, and ten peas at the store. Here, one comma after “potatoes” is missing, so this is also an incorrect option.
Option ‘c’ is I am going to get five onions, six potatoes, and ten peas at the store. This sentence has all the required punctuation marks and is using “going to”, so this is the correct option.
Option ‘d’ is I gonna get five onions, six potatoes, and ten peas at the store. This sentence isn’t grammatically correct, so this is not the correct answer.
As we have analyzed all the given options, we can easily figure out the correct answer. Here, the correct sentence with no grammatical errors and correct punctuation marks is – I am going to get five onions, six potatoes, and ten peas at the store.
So, the correct answer is “Option c”.

Note:
When you are given options, you must go with all the correct things and decent English words, including all the correct usage of punctuation marks. All the other sentences(other than ‘c’) may be grammatically correct but only because of an informal usage of words, we will exclude them.