Question

Sarah doesn't give me the book

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Question: What is the mistake in the sentence - Sarah doesn't give me the book.

Answer: The verb tense is wrong. It should be Sarah is not giving me the book.

Explanation:

What is tense?

• Tense conveys time through it's use. there are three types of tense forms - past, present and future.
• Past tense indicates the actions that have already happened and reported.
• Present tense is used to describe actions taking place as we speak.
• Future tense describes actions that are yet to occur.

Here, the tense form is wrong because:

1. Sarah doesn't give me the book indicates that the action is a part of some temporary routine and she usually doesn't give the author the book.
2. But, as we can see the statement is better suited in present tense i.e. Sarah is not giving me the book. Here, Sarah is currently not giving the author the book.

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