Multiple choice

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

Mahatma Gandhi, in shunning violence, and managing to convince his followers, earned the grudging respect of the British.

  1. Mahatma Gandhi, in shunning violence, and managing to convince his followers,

  2. By shunning violence, Mahatma Gandhi also managed to convince his followers to do the same, and he

  3. By shunning violence, which he managed to convince his followers to do also, Mahatma Gandhi

  4. By shunning violence, and having managed to convince his followers also to do so, Mahatma Gandhi

  5. By shunning violence himself, and by managing to convince his followers also to do the same, Mahatma Gandhi

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E Correct answer
Explanation

The option removes the Error of Parallelism and completes the sentence by answering: 'convince his followers' to do what?