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.

That way, when one of the members, not all of them, come along in the day time, we can immediately discharge a lot of energy of the emotion.

  1. That way, when one of the members, not all of them come along in the day time,

  2. That way, when not all the members but one of them comes along during the day,

  3. That way, when one of the members but not all of them comes along during the day,

  4. That way, when one of them comes along during the day,

  5. That way, when one of the members come along in the day time,
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C Correct answer
Explanation

If the sentence compounds an action and non-action, the verb should agree with the acting subject. In the given sentence the positive subject is 'one of the members' which is a singular subject, and so the verb should also be singular. The verb 'comes' used in this sentence is a singular verb and hence the subject and the verb agree. The preposition 'during' is also appropriate and so the sentence is correct.

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