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.

Everything, were we only keen enough to perceive it, bears the mark of one or the other of the two universal modes of consciousness, one of time, and the other of space.

  1. Everything, were we only keen enough to perceive it, bears the mark of one or the other of the two universal modes of consciousness, one of time, and the other of space.

  2. Everything, if we were keen enough to perceive it, bears the mark of one or the other of the two universal modes of consciousness, one of time, and the other of space.

  3. Everything, if we had only been keen enough to perceive it, bears the mark of one or the other of the two universal modes of consciousness, one of time, and the other of space.

  4. Everything, if we are only keen enough to perceive it, bears the mark of one or the other of the two universal modes of consciousness, one of time, and the other of space.

  5. Everything, if we are keen to perceive it, bears the mark of one or the other of the two universal modes of consciousness, one of time, and the other of space.
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Explanation

The sentence is correct as given.

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