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.

It may take weeks before you begin to see a measurable improvement, but with constant dedication, eventually the positive choices you would make today would be reflected by your future

  1. eventually the positive choices you would make today would be reflected by your future

  2. eventually your future will be reflecting the positive choices you would have made today

  3. eventually your future would reflect the positive choices you would make today

  4. eventually your future will reflect the positive choices you made today

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

Since the sentence is futuristic we require simple future tense. Thus “will reflect” is absolutely correct. With the word today we use ”made” that is past tense because the choices reflected in the future were made in the past.