English » Spotting Errors

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

We bought / two dozens / mangoes from / the market.

A

the market

B

We bought 

C

mangoes from

D

two dozens

Solution

option D is the right answer here,

we need to replace dozens with dozen

because,

 When “dozen” follows a number its plural is “dozen”. Only an unspecified number is referred to as “dozens”