English » Spotting Errors

Identify the segment in the sentence which contains the grammatical error.

Smita lived in this house since she was five years old.

A

since she was

B

Smita lived

C

in this house

D

five years old

Solution

option B has the error in it.

smita lived should be replaced with smita has been living.

when we have time clause(simce/for) in a sentence we are obliged to use present/past perfect continuous structure of the tense.