Choose the part of the following sentence that contains an error:
It is the quarter to ten by my watch.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → It is the
In telling the time, a quarter (fifteen minutes) is counted as one of four parts of an hour and takes the indefinite article: "a quarter to ten", "a quarter past six".
Option 1: It is the — Error. "The" should be "a".
Corrected: It is a
Option 2: quarter to ten — No error. "To" correctly shows the minutes before the hour.
Option 3: by my watch — No error. "By my watch" means according to my watch.
Option 4: No error — Incorrect. The sentence has an error in the first part.
Correct sentence: It is a quarter to ten by my watch.
Example: The meeting starts at a quarter past nine.