Question

The next summer, when the long trains of wagons came through with all the women and children, he had the sunflower trail to follow. What grammatical error occurs in this sentence? A) verb tense shift B) subject-verb disagreement C) wrong irregular noun form D) pronoun-antecedent disagreement

Answer 1

The sentence contains a verb tense shift error, where it starts in the past tense and shifts to the present perfect tense unexpectedly.

Step-by-step explanation:

The grammatical error in the sentence "The next summer, when the long trains of wagons came through with all the women and children, he had the sunflower trail to follow." is a verb tense shift. This occurs because the sentence starts in the past tense with 'came through' and then unexpectedly shifts to the present perfect tense with 'he had'. The correct sentence should maintain a consistent verb tense throughout, such as 'he had had the sunflower trail to follow' if the entire context is in the past, or 'he has the sunflower trail to follow' if the action is ongoing.

Answer 2

A

Explaination:

verb tense shift