Identify the part of the sentence that contains an error.
Do the flowers in your garden smell / more sweetly / than those in ours?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → more sweetly
Here smell does not show an action. It describes the flowers. Such a verb is a linking verb, and it takes an adjective, not an adverb. So the comparative adjective sweeter is needed, not the adverb “more sweetly”.
Option 1: Do the flowers in your garden smell — No error.
Option 2: more sweetly — Error. “more sweetly” should be “sweeter”.
Option 3: than those in ours? — No error. “Those” is right because it stands for the plural “flowers”.
Corrected: Do the flowers in your garden smell sweeter than those in ours?