Is "Meri behen kal school gaya" correct?
Writing "meri behen kal school gaya" (using the masculine verb form), Karan thinks the sentence is correct because every other word is in the right place. His mother says there is a mistake in it. Who is right?
Who do you think is right? Pick one.
The answer: His mother is right, "gaya" should be "gai"
Why
Karan is checking word order and word choice, which is a sensible first pass — but वाक्य-शुद्धि (sentence correction) also requires checking AGREEMENT between words, not just their individual correctness or position. As learned earlier, Hindi past-tense verbs change to match the subject's gender — 'गया' is masculine, 'गई' is feminine. The subject here is 'मेरी बहन' (my sister), a feminine noun, so the verb must match: 'गई', not 'गया'. Every individual word can be spelled correctly and placed in a sensible order, and the sentence can still be wrong if the verb doesn't agree with its subject — this is exactly the kind of error वाक्य-शुद्धि practice is meant to catch. Test it: 'मेरा भाई कल स्कूल गया' is correct (masculine subject, masculine verb); swap in 'बहन' without changing the verb, and the agreement breaks. His mother is right: the verb must match the subject's gender — 'मेरी बहन कल स्कूल गई' is the correct sentence.
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