my friends and i were sitting in a cafe and to talk...spot the error
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The given sentence can be written correctly as shown below:
My friends and I were sitting in a cafe and talking.
The error was of the 'to talk'.
Explanation:
It was an error of Parallelism; it means the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose which correspond in grammatical structure, sound, metre, meaning, etc. In the given sentences Parallelism refers to grammatical structures, predominantly verbs, non-finite verbs. In the given sentence verbs 'sitting' and 'talking' should have been of the same structure.
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