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.

He not only resists learning to correlate new facts but also remembering old lessons.

  1. not only resists learning to correlate new facts but also remembering

  2. not only resists learning to correlate new facts but also to remembering

  3. resists not only learning to correlate new facts but also remembering

  4. resists not only learning to correlate new facts but also to remembering
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Not only introduces resists and but also introduces remembering. Resists is the verb of the sentence, and remembering, along with learning, is an object of resists. One way to correct this error would be “not only resists learning. . . but also resists remembering. . .“ But the use of resists twice is unnecessarily wordy. A better way to correct the error is choice (3), the correct answer.

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