English » Spotting Errors
The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
The policeman asked / many people but / no one was knowing / how the accident happened.
how the accident happened
many people but
The policeman asked
no one was knowing
the erroneous part is option D
no one was knowing should be replaced with no one knew.
explanation:
there are some verbs which do not exist in ing form, and know is one of them.
others are, hate , like, love, prefer, want, wish, feel, seem, hear, see, smell, sound, taste, agree,deny, disagree, surprise, mean, believe, know, realize, remember, recognize.