Direction: In the following questions, some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is your answer. Your answer is (4) i.e., No error.
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Solve the question according to given instruction
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- The boy laid in the shelter
- for a long time before
- somebody came to rescue him
- No error
Correct Option: A
lay will replace laid.
lay is the Past Tense of lie (Verb) which means to be there in a horizontal position, or to get into that position.
Look at the examples given below :
She lay on the floor, listening to music.
Lay a sheet of newspaper on the floor.
Here, lay (Verb) means to put something somewhere carefully or neatly.
Hence, The boy laid in the shelter is the right usage
