Parts of the following sentence are given as options. Identify the part that contains a grammatical error. If there is no error, choose ‘No error’.
During the warm-up drills, / our hockey coach gets upset / when the juniors do not listen him.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → when the juniors do not listen him
The verb “listen” needs to before the person or thing we listen to. “Do not listen him” leaves it out. So it must be do not listen to him.
Option 1: During the warm-up drills, — No error.
Option 2: our hockey coach gets upset — No error. “Gets” is singular, which matches “our hockey coach”.
Option 3: when the juniors do not listen him — Error. “listen him” should be “listen to him”.
Corrected: During the warm-up drills, our hockey coach gets upset when the juniors do not listen to him.