The following sentence has been split into segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer. I have meet / my close friend the day after tomorrow / in his native place.
I have meet
The first segment is wrong on two counts, and the second is the more decisive.
1. The verb form. The auxiliary have must be followed by a past participle. The past participle of meet is met, so ‘have meet’ is not a possible English form.
2. The tense itself. The time phrase ‘the day after tomorrow’ points to the future, whereas the present perfect looks back at the past. Correcting the participle to ‘have met’ would still leave the sentence wrong. The segment should read ‘I will meet’.
Why the other segments are correct:
‘My close friend the day after tomorrow’ — a noun phrase followed by a future time expression, correctly formed.
‘In his native place’ — a prepositional phrase of place.
Since a genuine error exists, ‘No error’ cannot be chosen.
Takeaway: fix the tense against the time expression first. A verb form that is merely mis-conjugated is a smaller fault than one in the wrong time altogether.
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