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.

Parents should develop a mental checklist, which might include: the child's whereabouts during free time, whether homework has been completed, behaviour at school, and TV-watching habits.

  1. whether homework has been completed, behaviour at school, and TV-watching habits

  2. whether homework has been completed, behaved at school, and watched TV

  3. whether homework is completed, behaviour at school, and TV-watching habits

  4. completion of homework, behaviour at school, and habits of TV-watching

  5. completion of homework, behaviour at school, and TV-watching habits

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

The original sentence has error of parallelism. 'Whereabouts', 'behaviour' and 'habits' are all noun clauses, 'whether homework has been completed' is a verb clause. This option rectifies the error.