Distance Measurement And Description
Detect the grammatical error in the following sentence: Twenty five kilometers/ from Hala to Hyderabad/are/a/long distance?
Answer: Are
Explanation
- The grammatical error in the sentence is: "are".
- The subject of the sentence is "Twenty five kilometers", which is a singular noun phrase, so the verb should be singular as well. The correct verb would be "is", not "are".
- The corrected sentence would be: "Twenty five kilometers from Hala to Hyderabad is a long distance."
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