Question
The number of students (1)/ in the class have increased
(2)/ significantly over (3)/ the past few years. (4) The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error and select the option which rectifies that error. If no error is present then mark option 5 i.e., 'no error' as your answer.Solution
The error is in part 2. The correct phrase should be "has increased" because "The number of" is considered singular and requires a singular verb.
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