Question
The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. An eight years old girl has made this beautiful painting.
Solution
When using "years old" as an adjective, it should be "eight-year-old" (without the plural form "years"). Corrected Sentence: An eight-year-old girl has made this beautiful painting.
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