English » Spotting Errors

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

Paul was / bited by a dog / when he / was a child.

A

when he

B

Paul was

C

bited by a dog

D

was a child

Solution

option C has the error in it and is the right answer here,

bitted by a dog should be replaced with bitten by a dog.

above sentence is in passive construction so here we need to use be and third form of the verb structure,

third form of the word bit is bitten