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’.
Mr Bhatia has been running / a small cycle repair shop near our school / since the summer of 2018.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → No error
The tempting part is “has been running ... since”, but it is right. The shop opened in 2018 and is still running now. For an action that began in the past and is still going on, we use has/have been + -ing with “since”. So the sentence has no error.
Option 1: Mr Bhatia has been running — No error. The action started in the past and is still going on, so “has been running” is right.
Option 2: a small cycle repair shop near our school — No error. “A” is right before “small”, which begins with a consonant sound.
Option 3: since the summer of 2018 — No error. “Since” is used before a starting point in time, such as “the summer of 2018”.