can you help me with this sentence please?
There is supposed to be a grammatical mistake in the following sentence:

"An internationally famous ballerina, Maria Tallchief demonstrated that the quality of ballet in North America could equal those of the ballet in Europe."

which of the following words is wrongly used in the sentence?

1- famous ballerina
2- demonstrated
3- the quality
4- those

thanks for your help in advance...

Question

can you help me with this sentence please?
There is supposed to be a grammatical mistake in the following sentence:

"An internationally famous ballerina, Maria Tallchief demonstrated that the quality of ballet in North America could equal those of the ballet in Europe."

which of the following words is wrongly used in the sentence?

1- famous ballerina
2- demonstrated
3- the quality
4- those

thanks for your help in advance...

Answer

Number 4. The sentence is talking about the 'quality of ballet', which is singular. So 'those' must be changed to 'that'.

This might just be stylistic, but I would put a comma after Maria Tallchief.

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