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.

Large numbers of people those who are educated are not able to make any use of their education because they are day dreamers.

  1. Large numbers of people those who are educated are not able to make

  2. Large number of educated people are not able to make

  3. Large number of people those who are educated, are not making

  4. Large number of people who are educated are not able to make

  5. Large number of people are educated who are not able to make
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The original sentence has error of redundancy and noun usage; use of 'those who are' is superfluous and the subject is 'large number'. This option corrects both the errors by deleting 'those' and 's' after 'number'.

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