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Question
Select the option that identifies the error and supplies the correction for the following line, from a news report:
Last week a child was not allowed to board the plane at Ranchi airport.
Options
error correction child children error correction last previous error correction the a error correction at in
Solution
| error | correction |
| the | a |
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