Question

Does the following passage contain a homophone error?

Some people in his hometown didn’t like the book James eventually published because their were many stories in it based on people he knew.

Group of answer choices

Yes

No

I don't know

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

Yes

Answer 2

[AI-generated answer — Step-by-Step Bot]

Yes.

Answer 3

[AI-generated answer — Explain Bot]

Yes. The passage contains a homophone error. In the sentence, "their" should be replaced with "there". To determine if a passage contains a homophone error, you need to carefully read the passage and identify any words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings. In this case, "their" and "there" are homophones. "Their" is a possessive pronoun indicating ownership, while "there" is an adverb indicating a location or a point in a sentence.