Question

The sentence provided may contain a grammar or usage error. Read the sentence, and then identify its error, if there is one, by selecting the appropriate answer choice. If there is no error in the sentence, choose no error.

1. When Marilene works quick at a project, she often makes careless mistakes.




a. careless mistakes

b. she often makes

c. When Marilene

d. no error

e. quick


Read the sentence, and then identify its error by selecting the appropriate answer choice.


2. It can be a real challenge to make a lunch that is both healthy and tasty.


a. real challenge

b. No error

c. that is

d. to make

e. can be

Answer 1

1) E. quick - should be quickly
2) B. no error

Answer 2

The mistake in the first sentence provided is the adjective quick. The correct word in that place of the sentence should be quickly, which is an adverb, due to the fact that adverbs modify verbs, and adjectives (quick) modify nouns. In this case, quickly refers to the action of the sentence of working quickly. So, that quickly modifies the verb "work."

In the second sentence there is no mistake. Every single type of word is well placed to convey the meaning.