In the following question, one part of the sentence may have an error. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and click the option corresponding to it. If the sentence is free from error, click the “no error” option Among all the famous saying (1)/ of antiquity, there is none (2) that do greater honor to the author.(3)/ No error (4)?

Option 3 : 3

The correct answer is 3, i.e. the error lies in this part of the sentence.

• The error lies in the incorrect usage of the auxiliary verb 'do'.
• 'Do' needs to be replaced with 'does'.
• Here, the subject of the sentence i.e. 'saying' is a gerund and gerunds are always singular.
• Thus, the verb will be corresponding to the subject of the sentence i.e. singular according to 'subject-verb agreement'.
• Therefore, 'do' needs to be replaced with 'does'.

Thus, the correct sentence is: Among all the famous saying of antiquity, there is none that does greater honor to the author.

• Gerund: When the -ing form of the verb act as a noun it is called gerund and it is always singular.
  • Example: Swimming is good for health.
• Auxiliary verbs are verbs that are used in forming the tenses, moods, and voices of other verbs. The primary auxiliary verbs in English are be, do, and have; the modal auxiliaries are can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, and would.