Question
The following sentence has been divided into four
segments. Identify the segment that contains an error. The teacher asked the students / that whether they / had completed / their homework.Solution
The expression "that whether" is incorrect because both words are used to introduce indirect questions, but only one should be used.
The correct construction is: “The teacher asked the students whether they had completed their homework.”
So, segment 3 is grammatically incorrect.
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