NLN PAX Nursing Admission Exam

Category - Error Identification

There is an error in the italicized portion of the passage below. Choose the option that best corrects this error.

In 1936, "Migrant Mother," a mother with three children in California painted by Dorothea Lange.

  1. In 1936, Dorothea Lange painted a mother with three children, “Migrant Mother”.
  2. Dororthea Lange’s painted a mother with three children in 1936, “Migrant Mother”.
  3. “Migrant Mother” was Dorothea Lange’s 1936 painting of a mother with three children.
  4. A mother with three children was painted “Migrant Mother” in 1936 by Dorothea Lange.
  5. A mother with three children is pictured in “Migrant Mother” 1936 by Dorothea Lange.
Explanation

Answer: C - “Migrant Mother” was Dorothea Lange’s 1936 painting of a mother with three children. For a sentence to be grammatically correct, it must have a subject and a main verb. When a subject lacks either a subject or a main verb, the result is an incomplete sentence or a sentence fragment. In this question, all options but C are fragments.

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