Question : Directions: In the following question, some parts of the sentence have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is the answer. If a sentence is free from error, your answer is "No error".
Africa is the second largest continent (1) / and it contain about one fifth (2) / of all the land in the world. (3) / No error (4)
Option 1: (1)
Option 2: (2)
Option 3: (3)
Option 4: (4)
Correct Answer: (2)
Solution : The correct choice is the second option .
"Africa" is the subject, and it is singular. Therefore, the correct verb form to use is "contains", which is the third-person singular form of the verb (i.e. verb ending in - s in the simple present tense).
Therefore, the correct sentence is: Africa is the second largest continent and it contains about one-fifth of all the land in the world.
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