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.

Critics say LMB Corporation is overly focused on service delivery and not enough on sales; that it is slavish to preserving margins at the expense of winning new business; that its core service offerings differ little from those of the competition.

  1. overly focused on service delivery and not enough on sales; that it is slavish to preserving margins at the expense of winning new business; that its core service offerings differ little from those of the competition.

  2. overly focused on service delivery and not enough on sales; that it is slavish to preserving margins at the expense of winning newly business; that its core service offerings differ little from those of the competition.

  3. overly focused on service delivery and not enough on sales; that it is slavish to preserving margins at the expense of winning new business; that it's core service offerings differ little from those of the competition.

  4. overly focused on service delivery and not enough on sales; that it is slavish to preserving margins at the expense of winning new business; that its core service offerings differently little from those of the competition.
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A Correct answer
Explanation

(1) The given statement is grammatically correct. (2) is incorrect because of wrong usage of 'newly' in place of 'new'. (3) is incorrect because of a punctuation error (it's has been used in place of its). (4) is incorrect because of wrong adverbial usage (differently in place of different). (5) is incorrect because of faulty parallel construction (correct is 'overly focused…not enough')

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