Find out which part of the sentence has an error. If there is no error, choose ‘No error’.
The scissors on the craft teacher’s table / are too blunt / to cut through the thick chart paper.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → No error
“Are” may look wrong because the word just before it is “table”. But the subject is “the scissors”, not “table”. “Scissors” names one tool made of two parts. Used alone like this, such a word takes a plural verb. So the scissors are is right, and the sentence has no error.
Option 1: The scissors on the craft teacher’s table — No error. “On the craft teacher’s table” only tells us where the scissors are.
Option 2: are too blunt — No error. The plural verb “are” agrees with “scissors”.
Option 3: to cut through the thick chart paper — No error. “Too” + adjective is rightly followed by “to” + verb.