Hello! Kindly validate my answer on an exam.
In our English exam, we have a question called "error correction" where we get a paragraph that has a grammatical error on each line. We're required to point out the error and then substitute it for the correct word.
Here's the line:
The smallest things could make him really upset or give him the intense reaction.
Everyone in our class wrote that "the" is the incorrect word, with "an" being the right word in its place. However, our English teacher says that the incorrect word is "or". I didn't stick around to ask her what she thought the right word to substitute it was.
I would truly appreciate it if you validated our answers.
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Say: We're required to point out the error and then substitute the correct word for it , I would choose ' the ' as the error, just like you. There is nothing in the context to justify the definite article. or does sound a little odd, because make him really upset and give him an intense reaction.
- Say: We're required to point out the error and then substitute the correct word for it , I would choose ' the ' as the error, just like you.
- There is nothing in the context to justify the definite article.
- or does sound a little odd, because make him really upset and give him an intense reaction.
- sound very similar.
- But and would sound odd too.
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Say: We're required to point out the error and then substitute the correct word for it,
I would choose 'the' as the error, just like you. There is nothing in the context to justify the definite article.
or does sound a little odd, because make him really upset and give him an intense reaction. sound very similar. But and would
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