Question
It was he who came running in the house with the news
about the earthquake. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. If there is no error, select 'No error'.Solution
"In the house" should be corrected to "into the house" because "into" is used to indicate movement from outside to inside. The correct sentence will be “It was he who came running into the house with the news about the earthquake.”
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