As soon as the clock chimed to announce the hour at midnight she sprung up from her bed.

Directions: Each item in this section has a sentence with underlined parts labelled (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to determine whether there in an error is any underlined part and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter, i.e., (a), (b) or (c). If you determine there is no error, indicate your response as (d).

  1. A. As soon as the clock
  2. B. chimed to announce the hour at midnight
  3. C. she sprung up from her bed.
  4. D. No error

Correct Answer: C. she sprung up from her bed.

Explanation

The correct simple past tense of the verb "spring" is "sprang", not "sprung".

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