Answer to Question #219158 in English for Fira

Question

Find any grammatical errors in the following examples and explain why.

(i) a. The most impressive monument of Egypt's greatness, and one of the wonders of the world, are the pyramids.

b. They produced various medicines, the power of which were widely advertised.

e. The sharing which the two ministers made of their responsibilities were not suceessful.

d. The practical results of recognizing this fault was as follows.

e. The services of the Church of England states this to be a truth.

f All special rights of voting in the election was abolished.

g. One of major factors affecting the value of diamonds are their weight.

h. Each of these stones have to be cut and polished.

i. Most of her free time are spent attending concerts and plays or visiting museums and art galleries.

Answer 1

1 a. There is sentence fragments the sentences are not complete though they look like sentences. the adjective "are " is used instead of ' is.

b. Comma splices and their no clear antecedent after the comma or word medicine the sentences does not make sense or relate to the one before the comma.

c. Lack of comma after word responsibility in the sentence since its a compound sentence.

d. The sentence is incomplete since the sentences does not indicate what follows.

e. Pronoun disagreement and repetition of the word 'of'. use of too many prepositions .

The word 'the' to be deleted from the sentence. incorrect use of tense forms for example truth instead of true.

f. Incorrect preposition of voting used instead of in voting. there is repletion of words for example voting and elections

g). Irregular word forms for example plural form of word diamond is diamond .and the word are is used instead of is since the sentence in singular form.

h. Incorrect use of pronoun these is used instead of pronoun the.

i . Incorrect form of tenses and pronouns for example are instead of is and their lack of preposition.