Sentence Improvement | Practice Questions

Question of The Day03-11-2020

In the question below, a part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, choose ‘No improvement’.

Lately, my Sweden trip was quite special because I was being able to attend my best friend’s wedding.

Answer

Correct Answer : b ) was able to attend

Explanation :

The given sentence expresses a situation or event of the past. It tells that the person went to Sweden and attended his best friend’s wedding.

The former part of the sentence makes use of the past simple (was). Similarly, the latter part will also make use of the past simple.

The use of ‘being’ is incorrect here because ‘being’ is used for continuous tenses in passive.

It should be ‘was able to attend’.

Hence, (b) is the correct answer.

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