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    Question

    The following sentence has been split into four segments.

    Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. He told me / that he cannot attend / the meeting / due to illness.
    A due to illness. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B the meeting Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C that he cannot attend Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D He told me Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    The reporting verb told is in the past tense, so the verb in the reported speech should also be in the past tense."Cannot" should be changed to "could not" to maintain correct tense consistency.
    Correct sentence: "He told me that he could not attend the meeting due to illness."

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