Question : Improve the underlined part of the sentence. Choose 'No improvement' as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct.
My parents used to encouraged me to devote more time to study.
Option 1: encouraging me devoting
Option 2: No improvement
Option 3: encourages me to devote
Option 4: encourage me to devote
Correct Answer: encourage me to devote
Solution : The correct choice is the fourth option .
Explanation : The underlined part of the sentence contains a grammatical error. Encouraged is the past tense of "encourage", but in this sentence, the verb should be in the base form encourage because "used to" is followed by the same. The phrase "used to" indicates a past time or habit.
Therefore, the correct sentence would be: "My parents used to encourage me to devote more time to study."
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