Question

Search for grammatical errors in the underlined sections of the following sentences and select the option that best corrects them. If there is no error, choose option A.
The circus audience received a well-deserved round of applause for the perfectly timed acrobatic stunt.
audience received a well-deserved
audience gave a well deserved
audience did receive a well deserved
audience gave a well-deserved
audience did get a well-deserved

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is D. audience gave a well-deserved.

Explanation:

Audiences normally give and not receive applauses, so this is the error in the sentence, which allows us to eliminate the other which don't have a "gave" for verb, which basically are options: A, C and E.

Why isn't B? Well, because our rule about hyphens in adjectives, tells us that if the adjective goes before the noun, it should be hyphenated. But, if the adjective goes after, then it should not. In this case, our noun is "applause" and as you can see it goes after the "well-deserved" adjective, so this is the reason why it's hyphenated. Other story would be if it said: the round of applause was well deserved (no hyphen, as it goes after).