[Grammar] Select the underlined word or phrase that is incorrect..

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They went camping in the woods with their friends, who is great at fishing.


a) their friends
b)great at fishing
c)the woods
d) they went
 
Are you sure that you have got the sentence right?
 
It's supposed to be incorrect. There's only one segment that's wrong, and there's only one answer that could be the wrong bit.
 
I don't see any of the answers as being incorrect.
 
I'm with Raymott. Only one of the four choices given could be underlined as the incorrect part of the sentence.
 
It's supposed to be incorrect. There's only one segment that's wrong, and there's only one answer that could be the wrong bit.

I know, but it doesn't strike me as a good example of this type of question.
 
I still don't see the incorrect answer.
 
Really? Hard to do this without giving the answer away to the OP but ... Sing/pl (pre-comma) + vb (post-comma).
 
I consider the verb to be wrong, but that is not one of the choices.
 
But if the verb is right, then something in the first half could be underlined as incorrect. Once changed, it would go with the verb and make a correct sentence.
 
Either view is equally valid. I have seen many of these questions that have structural problems.
 
That is the one you chose. I wanted to point out another option.
 
But the question directs us to choose one of a, b, c and d. Had your option been labelled e), it would have been an impossible question because there would have been two correct answers. I agree with you that if the verb were changed to fit the plural in the first half, it would still result in a grammatical sentence but that was not one of the 4 options.

A better question would have been "You can change only one of these four options. Changing which one would result in a grammatical sentence, and to what would you change it?"
 
As has previously been said in this thread, it's not a great question to illustrate the point but there is still only one possible answer.
 
Or one could say there is no possible answer.
 
Or one could say there is no possible answer.
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Of course there is.
Change the noun to match the verb. That is one of the possible answers.

I too had expected to find the verb as the choice, but it wasn't, so it's the noun that's the problem.
 
Had the question simply been "What is wrong with the following sentence? They camped in the woods with their friends, who is great at fishing", I imagine 99% of us would have said "Simple. It should be "are" instead of "is"!" However, a canny teacher might go on to ask the students if there was a different way of correcting the sentence. After a while, most of us would probably spot that changing "friends" to "friend" would do the job equally well.
 
Both solutions work.
 
That was never in question but post #1 listed only one of those solutions as an option so it had to be the right answer for that exercise.
 
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