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.

Just as Shakespeare's plays and Alexander Scott's poetry give an insight into the English society of the time, Arthur Conan Doyle's crime and mystery stories takes the reader inside the nineteenth century London.

  1. Arthur Conan Doyle's crime and mystery stories takes the reader

  2. so do Arthur Conan Doyle's crime and mystery stories takes the reader

  3. reading Arthur Conan Doyle's crime and mystery stories takes the reader

  4. crime and mystery stories by Arthur Conan Doyle take the reader

  5. so do Arthur Conan Doyle's crime and mystery stories take the reader

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E Correct answer
Explanation

Correct; makes the correct comparison by using correlative conjunction 'so' when referring to Arthur Conan Doyle's stories; Corrects Subject-Verb error by using plural verb 'take' for the subject 'stories'.