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.

Natural calamities like the tsunami puts the fear of God into human mind.

  1. Natural calamities like the tsunami puts the fear of God into human mind.

  2. The tsunami as well as other natural calamities puts the fear of God into human mind.

  3. Natural calamities like the tsunamis puts the fear of God into human mind.

  4. A natural calamity like the tsunami puts the fear of God into human mind.

  5. Natural calamities like the tsunami have always put the fear of God into human mind.

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

This option changes the subject to singular and thus corrects the error of subject-verb agreement.