guerrero25 wrote:
On the lawn at Leeuwin when we arrived was two kinds of birds: one was a helicopter, waiting perhaps to whisk a moneyed client to Perth, and swooping around it were flocks of noisy little green parrots called 28s, supposedly because their chatter sounds a bit like that number.
(A)was two kinds of birds: one was a helicopter, waiting perhaps to whisk a moneyed client to Perth, and swooping around it was flocks of noisy little green parrots called 28s, supposedly because their chatter sounds
(B)were two kinds of birds: one was a helicopter, waiting perhaps to whisk a moneyed client to Perth, and swooping around them were flocks of noisy little green parrots called 28s, supposedly because their chatter sounds
(C)were two kinds of birds: one was a helicopter, waiting perhaps to whisk a moneyed client to Perth, and swooping around it were flocks of noisy little green parrots called 28s, supposedly because their chatter sound
(D)were two kinds of birds: one was a helicopter, waiting perhaps to whisk a moneyed client to Perth, and swooping around it were flocks of noisy little green parrots called 28s, supposedly because their chatter sounds
(E)were two kinds of birds: one was a helicopter, waiting perhaps to whisk a moneyed client to Perth, and swooping around it were flocks of noisy little green parrots called 28s, supposedly because its chatter sounds
Here the sentence is long and thus the errors, though those are simple errors, are obscured and take a little time to get detected. I am surprised to see only one error in each incorrect option.
A) Subject-verb disagreement: singular verb "was" does not agree with plural subject "two kinds".
B) Pronoun error: plural pronour "their" has the singular antecedent "helicopter".
C) Subject-verb disagreement: plural verb "sound" does not agree with singular subject "chatter".
D) Correct. There is no S-V agreement problem or pronoun referencing problem.
E) Pronoun error: singular pronour "its" has the plural antecedent "flocks".
Correct answer is D.