Multiple choice

Directions: Select the best revision for the underlined part in the given sentence.

The way modern society teaches its kids is incompatible with the way they learn; what's been missing is, the recognition that learning is best when they playfully construct their own learning environments with only gentle guidance from adults.

  1. that learning is best when they playfully construct their own learning environments with only gentle guidance from adults

  2. that learning is best when kids playfully construct their own learning environments with only gentle guidance from adults

  3. that kids learn best when they playfully construct their own learning environments with only gentle guidance from adults

  4. that kids learn best when their own environment is playfully constructed with only gentle guidance

  5. that the learning is best when their own environment is playfully constructed with only gentle guidance

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

In the original sentence, 'they' does not have a clear antecedent. The logical continuation of 'learning is best' should have been 'when it is'. But this option does even better by introducing the antecedent 'kids'.