<p>(no matter) how (carefully) the (students) handle the beakers, every year a few(gets broken). (no error)</p>
<p>There is no error in this sentence but what about (gets broken)---> breaks</p>
<p>Gets broken sounds really odd and strange. Please help!</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Should be ‘get’</p>
<p>Yeah it should be “get broken”, break would sound better, but keeping the original form it should be “get” because it has to agree with beakers. subject-verb agreement.</p>
<p>What do you mean “no error in this sentence”? Is that the answer? Because it’s wrong.</p>
<p>I think maybe the book the question was in gave the answer of “no error” when it was clearly wrong.</p>