Question

Identify the part of the sentence that contains a mistake in grammar, idiom or syntax :
[A] If one reads the newspaper regularly [B] you will be surprised at the improvement [C] in your overall reading skills [D] day by day.
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) No error

Answer 1

Hint: Grammar refers to the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics). The syntax is the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences. An idiom is an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up.

Complete answer:
In the given question, at first glance, part [A] seems like it has no grammatical mistake as it follows all rules of grammar.
However, when we read further it becomes clear that the subject of the sentence is in the second person since ‘you’ and ‘your’ are being used. There is no other anomaly.
Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question:
Option (a.), 'A', refers to the part ‘If one reads the newspaper regularly’ where the subject is in the third person (one).
Therefore, option (a.) is correct as the rest of the sentence is in the second person, as is indicated by the presence of ‘you’ and ‘your’.

Option (b.), ‘B', option (c.), ‘C', option (d.), ‘D', are incorrect as they do not contain any grammatical mistakes.
Option (e.), ‘No error’, is incorrect as an option (a.) is correct.

Note:
In this question, it will be helpful for the student to recall the concept of the person in grammar. The person is a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party.