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.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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