Which option correctly identifies the error in the sentence 'My nephew gave I a signed autograph from the tournament's most valuable player'?

Which option correctly identifies the error in the sentence 'My nephew gave I a signed autograph from the tournament's most valuable player'?

• A. The sentence is correct
• B. The error is tense agreement
• C. The error is pronoun case
• D. The error is punctuation

Answer: (C)

Pronoun case is the issue. After verbs of giving, the pronoun referring to the recipient should be in the objective case. Here, the recipient is the person who receives something, so the pronoun should be me, not I. The sentence should read: My nephew gave me a signed autograph from the tournament's most valuable player. The rest of the sentence is fine—the apostrophe in tournament's is correct, and punctuation isn’t the problem. The tense is also correct. So the error lies in using the subject pronoun I where the object pronoun me is required.

Pronoun case is the issue. After verbs of giving, the pronoun referring to the recipient should be in the objective case. Here, the recipient is the person who receives something, so the pronoun should be me, not I. The sentence should read: My nephew gave me a signed autograph from the tournament's most valuable player. The rest of the sentence is fine—the apostrophe in tournament's is correct, and punctuation isn’t the problem. The tense is also correct. So the error lies in using the subject pronoun I where the object pronoun me is required.