English » Spotting Errors

The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them contains an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options.

He was / late / for school / and punished.

A

and punished

B

for school

C

late

D

He was

Solution

option A has error in it and punished should be replced with and was punished

if we break the sentence in two parts we will read it as, he was late and he was punished 

this is passive constriction so was/were + v3 construction should be followed