Multiple choice

Choose the best sentence after changing the highlighted word/phrase (present participle) into bare infinitive.

Sentence - Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, not as an articulate, clear, well-defined sound, but as the reverberating successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.

  1. Laugh appears to stand in need of an echo, not as an articulate, clear, well-defined sound, but as the successive rumblings that reverberate like thunder in a mountain.

  2. Laughter appear to stand in need of an echo, not as an articulate, clear, well-defined sound, but as the successive rumblings that reverberate like thunder in a mountain.

  3. Laughter appears to stand in need of a echo, not as an articulate, clear, well-defined sound, but as the successive rumblings that reverberate like thunder in a mountain.

  4. Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, not as an articulate, clear, well-defined sound, but as the successive rumblings that reverberate like thunder in a mountain.
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Option (4) is grammatically the most correct option. Option (1) is incorrect because 'Laugh' is a verb and has been used incorrectly here. Option (2) is incorrect as it violates the subject verb agreement (Laughter appear). Option (3) is incorrect because of wrong usage of article before noun (echo). Option (5) is incorrect because of wrong adverbial usage (articulately, clearly…) as these words tend to modify a noun.

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