GATE Overflow Test Series | Verbal Aptitude | Test 1 | Question: 19

Question

From among the given sentences pick the grammatically correct one:
      

• A. Hugging his mother he opened the gift box.
• B. His performance in the match was superior than his teammates.
• C. I saw them playing while driving down the street.
• D. Laughing out loud Teja tried to express his happiness.

Answer 1

A. One cannot open a gift box while hugging. Correct form should be, After hugging his mother, he opened the gift box
B. "superior to" should be used and not "superior than". Comparative adjectives inferior, superior, senior, junior, anterior, posterior etc. are followed by to and not "than".
C. This is an example of dangling modifier. Descriptions need to be placed next to the person or thing they are describing. The correct form here should be, While driving down the street, I saw them playing. (I was driving and so I and driving should not have playing in between)
D. This is correct. Here, "laughing out loud" is a present participle phrase describing Teja. "Laughing" here is not a gerund though as in the sentence "Laughing is good for health".

Comments

Eliminated D thinking that comma is missed out. Can you please elaborate why don’t we need comma here and where we must use.