English » Spotting Errors

The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.

Nowadays, common people take / interest in the manner / in which / they were governed.

A

in which

B

Nowadays common people take

C

they were governed

D

interest in the manner

Solution

the error lies in the part C

they were governed should be replaced with they are governed,

now a days shows that the sentence is in present tense so we should use present form of the verb be