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Grammer help please.
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n***@sayouly.com
2007-12-02 01:04:52 UTC
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I found the following sentence in a sample of test questions on an
Arab web site. It is one of those questions where you have to find
the error in the sentence.

The box of bottles were loaded onto the truck and taken to the
supermarket to be sold.

Is the error

A. were
B. loaded
C. taken
D. to be

I think it is C. and the correction would be were taken. Am I right?
heron stone
2007-12-02 01:29:42 UTC
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Post by n***@sayouly.com
I found the following sentence in a sample of test questions on an
Arab web site. It is one of those questions where you have to find
the error in the sentence.
The box of bottles were loaded onto the truck and taken to the
supermarket to be sold.
Is the error
A. were
B. loaded
C. taken
D. to be
I think it is C. and the correction would be were taken. Am I right?
.they're all wrong

.the box WAS loaded
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Einde O'Callaghan
2007-12-02 09:07:01 UTC
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Post by n***@sayouly.com
I found the following sentence in a sample of test questions on an
Arab web site. It is one of those questions where you have to find
the error in the sentence.
The box of bottles were loaded onto the truck and taken to the
supermarket to be sold.
Is the error
A. were
B. loaded
C. taken
D. to be
I think it is C. and the correction would be were taken. Am I right?
..they're all wrong
..the box WAS loaded
Please ignore the non-standard punctuation in this reply. Mr Stone has
his own peculiar theories of punctuation that are not accepted by the
overwhelming majority of of speakers and writeres of english - indeed I
believe theat he is the only person in the world to use this form of
punctuation.

the newsgroup misch.education.language.english is a forum where learners
of English ask questions about standard usage - it's not a place to
propagate non-standard theories about language and puctuation - keep
that discussion to the appropriate newsgroups, e.g. alt.usage.english,
alt.english.usage, sci.lang etc.

The original poster asked which word was in error in the sentence. one
of the alternatives for teh error was "A. were" - this is the correct
answer.

Regards, Einde O'Callaghan

p.s. By the way the word is "grammar".
Owain
2007-12-02 01:12:14 UTC
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Post by n***@sayouly.com
I found the following sentence in a sample of test questions on an
Arab web site. It is one of those questions where you have to find
the error in the sentence.
The box of bottles were loaded onto the truck and taken to the
supermarket to be sold.
Is the error
A. were
B. loaded
C. taken
D. to be
I think it is C. and the correction would be were taken. Am I right?
No, it's A.

The box of bottles *was* loaded ...

"Box of bottles" is singular (one box) so takes a singular verb.

Owain
tuggie
2007-12-03 10:08:20 UTC
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Post by n***@sayouly.com
I found the following sentence in a sample of test questions on an
Arab web site. It is one of those questions where you have to find
the error in the sentence.
The box of bottles were loaded onto the truck and taken to the
supermarket to be sold.
Is the error
A. were
B. loaded
C. taken
D. to be
I think it is C. and the correction would be were taken. Am I right?
I think the error is A.,It should read was loaded as it was a SINGLE
box

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