Question
He has remade a whole small shop (A)/building in King's
Cross into (B)/an imaginary reptile house, (C)/accept there aren't any reptiles in the museum cases (D)! Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. Mark the part with the error as your answer.Solution
The word ‘accept’, which means ‘to agree to take something’ is inappropriate here. The correct word is ‘except’, which means ‘not including’. He has remade a whole small shop building in King's Cross into an imaginary reptile house, except there aren't any reptiles in the museum cases!
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