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.

Trying to keep himself in fine fettle, he cut down on cakes, drinks, meats but shied away from work-outs that was the essential pre-requisite for what he had sought out to do.

  1. but shied away from work-outs that was the essential pre-requisite for what he had sought out to do

  2. but shied away from work-outs, which was the essential pre-requisite for what he had sought out to do

  3. and shied away from work-outs that was the essential pre-requisite for what he had sought out to do

  4. but shied away from work-out, which was the essential pre-requisite for what he had sought out to do

  5. but shied away from work-outs that were the essential pre-requisites for what he had sought out to do
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E Correct answer
Explanation

The subject in this clause is the plural 'work-outs'; which should take a plural verb 'were'. This option replaces the singular 'that was the essential pre-requisite' with the plural 'that were the essential pre-requisites'. Hence, (5) is the answer.

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