Question
Each of the students were given a
certificate. The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.Solution
The phrase "Each of the students" is singular and should be followed by a singular verb. The correct form is "Each of the students was given a certificate." Therefore, the segment containing the error is "students were."
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