English Grammar - Sentence Structure and Transformation

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English Grammar - Sentence Structure and Transformation

Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence: The manager asked to the clerk to submit the report.


Options:

  1. asked the clerk that submit the report
  2. requested the clerk to submit report
  3. asked the clerk to submit the report
  4. told to the clerk submit report

Right Answer: asked the clerk to submit the report

The verb 'ask' takes a direct personal object without any preposition, so the phrase 'asked to the clerk' is ungrammatical and the word 'to' must be removed. The correct pattern is 'ask somebody to do something', which gives 'asked the clerk to submit the report'. Option one wrongly replaces the infinitive with the conjunction 'that' followed by a bare verb. Option two removes the necessary article 'the' before 'report'. Option four inserts 'to' after 'told' and then drops the infinitive marker before 'submit', producing two errors. Hence option three is correct.

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