Multiple choice

Directions: The 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.

The United States, the super power of the world, for the first time are being headed by a black as their president.

  1. are being headed by a black as their president.

  2. are being headed by black as their president.

  3. are being headed by a black as its president.

  4. is being headed by a black as its president

  5. is being headed by a black as their president.

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Option (4) is grammatically the most correct option. (1), (2) and (3) are incorrect because the subject (United States) is the name of a country and is singular, hence, it will take a singular verb. Option (5) is incorrect because of wrong pronoun (their) as compared to (its) in (4).