Spot the error:My library normally only allows patrons to check out three books at a time and when explained that I needed to check out more than that because I was working on a term paper, they allowed me to do so.
Correct answer: C. And when explained that I needed to check out more than that
- A. My library normally only allows
- B. At a time
- C. And when explained that I needed to check out more than that
- D. They allowed me to do so
Explanation
The sentence should read: "My library normally only allows patrons to check out three books at a time, but when I explained that I needed to check out more than that because I was working on a term paper, they made an exception and allowed me to do so."The construction of the given statement is grammatically incomplete, as it's missing the subject ("I") after "when" as well as the correct conjunction "but" instead of 'and'.
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