Question

Identify the part of the sentence that contains a grammatical error: (A) The teacher along with her students (B) were going to visit (C) the science museum (D) next Monday morning.

• A. Part A
• B. Part C
• C. Part D
• D. Part B

Hint:

Try removing the phrase that starts with "along with" entirely and re-read the sentence with just its true subject and verb to check agreement.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

Step 1: Apply the bracketing technique: mentally place commas around, and then delete, any phrase beginning with "along with", "as well as", or "together with", because these phrases never affect the number of the main verb.
Step 2: Bracketing out "along with her students" leaves the simplified sentence "The teacher were going to visit the science museum next Monday morning." Reading this stripped-down version instantly reveals the mismatch, since "the teacher" is singular and "were" is plural.
Step 3: The true grammatical subject was never the combined group, it is only "the teacher", so the verb must be the singular "was", giving "was going to visit".
Step 4: Segment (A), "The teacher along with her students", is grammatically fine as a noun phrase; the fault is only in the verb that follows it, which sits in segment (B), "were going to visit". Segments (C) and (D) contain no errors.
Correct option: (4) Part B.