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Choose the sentence that is grammatically correct.

Updated On: Jul 15, 2026
  • Customs officer‘s do not allow passenger to carry banned items into or out of the country
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  • Customs officers does not allow passengers to carry banned items into or out of country.
  • Customs officers do not allows passengers to carry banned items into or out of country.
  • Customs officers do not allow passengers to carry banned items into or out of the country.
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The Correct Option is D

Approach Solution - 1

A useful way to check this sentence is to isolate the three grammar points it is testing and confirm each one separately: the noun form, the verb form, and the article.

First, the nouns. Since the sentence is a general statement about all customs officers and all passengers, both words need the plain plural form: "officers" and "passengers," with no apostrophe and no singular form.

Second, the verb. The subject "officers" is plural, so the auxiliary must be "do," not "does." And because "do not" already carries the negation and the tense, the main verb that follows has to stay in its bare form, "allow," never "allows."

Third, the article. "Country" here refers to a specific country, whichever one the passenger is entering or leaving, so it needs the definite article "the" in front of it, not no article at all.

Checking each option against these three points, only the version with "officers," "passengers," "do not allow," and "the country" gets all three right together.

So, the correct answer is Customs officers do not allow passengers to carry banned items into or out of the country.

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Approach Solution -2

Reading each version of this sentence aloud and noticing the first word that feels wrong to a native ear is a fast way to work through it.

  1. Option A: "Customs officer's do not allow passenger to carry banned items into or out of the country." Said aloud, "officer's do" is the spot that catches the ear, an apostrophe-marked word followed immediately by a plural-sounding verb, and the sentence ending in a bare "passenger" instead of "passengers" leaves it sounding like it is talking about only one person when the rest of it clearly is not.
  2. Option B: "Customs officers does not allow passengers to carry banned items into or out of country." Reading this aloud, "officers does" is the moment that sounds off, a plural-sounding subject followed by a verb that a speaker would only use for one person. "Out of country," without "the," also sounds like something is missing right at the end.
  3. Option C: "Customs officers do not allows passengers to carry banned items into or out of country." Read aloud, "do not allows" trips the ear almost as soon as it is said, since "allows" carries an ending that does not belong after "do not." The missing "the" before "country" again leaves the ending sounding clipped.
  4. Option D: "Customs officers do not allow passengers to carry banned items into or out of the country." Read straight through, this version moves without a single stumble, "officers do not allow passengers" and "out of the country" both sound exactly the way a fluent speaker would say them.

Following the ear through each option and then confirming why it stumbled leads to the same option each time.

So, the correct answer is Customs officers do not allow passengers to carry banned items into or out of the country.

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