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    Question

    In each question below, four words are printed in bold type. One of these words given in bold may be either wrongly spelt or inappropriate in the context of the sentence. Find out the word that is inappropriate or wrongly spelt, if there is any. That word is your answer. If the sentence is correct as it is and ‘No correction is required’, mark 5) as the answer.

    The lemons in our neighbor’s garden hanged

    invitingly, and they took me back to those lazy summer afternoons where we would squander them away in pitchers of lemonade.
    A hanged Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B those Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C squander Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D away Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E No correction required Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Replace HANGED with HUNG The lemons in our neighbor’s garden hung invitingly, and they took me back to those lazy summer afternoons where we would squander them away in pitchers of lemonade. The regular past tense of hang is hung, which would mostly be used. In the case of hanging someone by the neck the past tense is hanged which means killed by hanging.  

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