Choose the grammatically correct sentences from the options given below:
(A) Were I the principal, I would start school at nine in the winter months.
(B) The bank on our street it does not open on Sundays.
(C) Tanya loves old Hindi songs, and so does her grandfather.
(D) The new peon didn’t tell nobody about the broken window in the lab.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (A) and (C) only
(A) Were I the principal, I would start school at nine in the winter months. — Correct.
- The sentence starts with “Were I” in place of “If I were”.
- With no “if”, the helping verb “were” comes before the subject, and the second part takes “would”.
(B) The bank on our street it does not open on Sundays. — Incorrect.
- The given sentence says “The bank on our street it does not open”.
- “The bank on our street” is already the subject, so the extra “it” is a second subject and must go.
- Correct form: The bank on our street does not open on Sundays.
(C) Tanya loves old Hindi songs, and so does her grandfather. — Correct.
- “So does her grandfather” means her grandfather loves them too.
- The first verb “loves” is in the simple present, so the short addition uses so + does + subject.
(D) The new peon didn’t tell nobody about the broken window in the lab. — Incorrect.
- The given sentence says “didn’t tell nobody”.
- One negative word is enough. With “didn’t”, we use “anybody”.
- Correct form: The new peon didn’t tell anybody about the broken window in the lab.