What is the actual answer here? I'm so confused.

What are the instructions? Are you supposed to choose the correct option, or the odd one out? This sentence is totally ungrammatical and would require more than one change to fix it.

this whole sentence is full of shit

what exactly is the question asking?

I'm not sure I understand the exercise. Did you choose the text in bold, or were you asked to identify the mistake in what was already written? 1 and 4 are both wrong, but it seems like there's also an error in the non-bold text. 1 is very obvious. It should be "why", not "because" 4 is less obvious. "Coming" doesn't really work. "Before coming" would scan better, but doesn't work with the previous "because I have". I would expect the sentence to read "the reason why I am late is because I had to finish my homework before coming here".

“The reason I am late is that I had to finish my homework before coming here.”

What question is it asking? I feel like the first underline should be replaced with "why" and the end is clunky. Maybe they mean to say "I had to finish my homework before coming here" but I don't know the context

Guys, It’s an error identification.

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There are so many things wrong with this sentence, and I'm not sure what the question is asking. I'd rephrase the sentence as "The reason (that) I am late is that I had to finish my homework before coming here".

What is the question?????

i think they're trying to get you to say 1? the whole sentence is badly worded tbh

1 and 4 are the most wrong, but 2 and 3 aren’t truly correct

The reason I am late coming here is because I had to finish my homework? I Is that what you’re supposed to do? ”The reason because…” is wrong and weird.

I was late because I had to finish my homework before coming here. Personally, I pretty consistently restructure a sentence if it requires a "is that" clause (e.g. the reason I'm late **is that** I had to do my homework). It just doesn't sound good, very clunky.

“I’m late because I had to finish my homework before coming here.” (… is how I would have phrased this sentence.)

Did ChatGPT ask Google Translate to help it write this sentence? None of those answers can fix this sentence.

For the sentence to be correct, concise, and sound natural, it should read: The reason I am late is I had to finish my homework before coming here. If you were going to put something in 1, it should be “why”. However, you don’t need anything there. 2 is technically correct, but “that” is unnecessary. 3 is correct. 4 should be “before coming”. On top of all that, the verb should be past tense, since the sentence implies you already finished the homework.

There are multiple errors. The correct sentence would be: **The reason I am late is that I** ***had*** **to finish my homework** ***before*** **coming here.** \#1 is incorrect. *Because* is in the wrong place. You could say *I am late because I had to finish my homework.* Or, as above, you can replace it with *the reason is that...* \-- but using both is redundant. \#2 is correct. \#3, um, *finish* is correct but what about the error immediately before it? I have to finish my homework = near future. I'm explaining why I *will be late,* not why I *am* late. If I *am* late, this means the problem happened in the past. I *had* to finish my homework. You can say "I'm running late" or "I'm going to be late," but you can't say "sorry I'm late" until you actually arrive. If you haven't done your homework yet, you say "I'm going to be late because I have to finish my homework." It's all in the future. \#4 is incorrect. I had to finish my homework *before* coming here.

The native way of saying this would be something along the lines of "I am late because I had to finish my homework before I could get here." Even this is sort of clunky, and I'd probably say "I was late getting here because I had to finish my homework first."

Are other languages taught as poorly as English? Are there people out there learning bullshit French or Japanese from people who barely speak the language? I feel so sorry for people, especially those paying for these lessons, who don't realise how poor their language instruction is.

I’m confused, too. I think the right answer is 1. “The reason” and “because” are redundant together. You would only need one, either “the reason I am late is…” or “I am late because…” However, the sentence is so poorly written that in actuality, there are multiple errors. First, “have” should be “had.” The person did their homework in the past, prior to arriving. And d is missing a word. It should say “before coming here.” Edit to add: I suppose it could also be “Because I am late, I have to finish my homework upon arriving here.” Still, 1 would be correct, and 4 seems to be incorrectly translated from another language. The verb tense does not make sense here in English.

What is because doing? Coming could be right if he meant he finished the homework in his way “coming” to school

Both 1 and 4 seem incorrect, so it's confusing. The reason **that** I am late **is that** I have to **finish** my homework **before coming** here.

This sentence would require multiple corrections, not only within the numbered words. Please use higher quality materials for your self study, or attend a different course if you've been given this by your teacher.

If this is homework for you, you should show up late to the next class. (They cut a word and makes the whole thing sound wrong even if you correct one of the marked words)

As a native English speaker I have no idea what they are telling you to do, but I would say “The reason why I am late is because I had to finish my homework before coming here” is the more appropriate sentence in this case, and happy cake day

This could use reductions. "The reason I'm late, I had to finish my homework". Everything else is implied in context. The original would make my head hurt in a conversation.

Who makes these ridiculous test questions? It seems there are constantly English test questions on this sub that were not created by native English speakers. I would not trust the rest of this test. The sentence as it stands has multiple errors. A native might say "The reason (that) I am late is that I had to finish my homework."

It's an overall poorly constructed sentence, but I think you're supposed to omit "because" "The reason I am late is that I have to finish my homework before coming here." Is still not a great sentence, but it's much better. I would say, "I am late because I had to finish my homework first" But something more in line with the original sentence "The reason I am late is because I had to finish my homework before coming here." You could also keep "is that" instead of "is because" but it sounds like a child

I’d go with (3). It’s the only word that actually belongs in the sentence.

Correctly constructed sentence: The reason \[that\] I am late is because I had to finish my homework before coming here. \[that\] is optional.

This looks to me like, (Because) doesn't belong.  Because means, "The Reason." So despite a native speaker not speaking like this, the sentence reads: The reason the reason I am late, is that I have to finish my homework coming here. Removing anything other than "Because" makes the sentence lose viability.

This honestly has a lot of problems. Someone might say "The reason I am late / I am late is because I have to finish my homework."

It could work with reverse instructions--2 is the only non-mistake.

So many things are wrong here

The entire sentence seems very wrong. I get the meaning of it, but it's very badly structured. "The reason I'm late is because I had to finish my homework before coming here." would be my shot at restructuring the sentence.