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.

You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.

  1. You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and will

  2. You, your joys and sorrows, memories and ambitions, sense of personal identity and will

  3. You and your joys and sorrows, memories and ambitions, sense of personal identity and will

  4. You and your joys and sorrows; your memories and ambitions; your sense of personal identity and will

  5. You; your joys and sorrows; your memories and ambitions; your sense of personal identity and will

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

The original sentence suffers from the error of redundancy; repetitive use of 'your'. This option limits the use to intensifiers.