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.

Wendy's parents splashed in a lot on her wedding because they wanted to make it the most memorable day of their daughter's life.

  1. Wendy's parents splashed in a lot on her wedding because they wanted to make it the most memorable day of their daughter's life.

  2. Wendy's parents splashed out a lot on her wedding because they wanted to make it the most memorable day of their daughter's life.

  3. Wendy's parents splashed out a lot on her wedding because they wanted to make it the most memorable day of their daughters life.

  4. Wendy's parents splashed out a lot on her wedding because they wanted to make the most memorable day of their daughter's life.

  5. Wendy's parents splashed out a lot on her wedding because they wanted to make it most memorable day of their daughter's life.
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Option (2) is grammatically the most correct option. (1) is incorrect because 'splash out' is the correct phrasal usage which means 'to spend freely'. (3) is incorrect because of punctuation error (correct usage shall be daughter's life). (4) is incorrect because of a missing pronoun which can refer to the antecedent 'wedding'. (5) is incorrect because article 'the' is missing before the superlative degree of adjective. (most memorable).

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