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.

Rather than seek to trap their child in a lie, parents are better off focusing on what they can do to prevent its happening again.

  1. Rather than seek to trap their child in a lie, parents are better off focusing on

  2. Rather than seek to trap their child in a lie, parents are better off focus on

  3. Rather than seek to trap their child in a lie, parents are better focusing on

  4. Rather than seeking to trap their child in a lie, parents are better off focusing on

  5. Rather than seek to trap their child in a lie, parents better focus on
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D Correct answer
Explanation

'Rather than seek' may be correct as a standalone, but read in conjunction with 'focusing on', this makes the sentence non-parallel.

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