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.

A study of this nature calls for data on the monitoring of shopping behaviour of consumers, factors which motivate consumers to shop in large stores, influence of 'non-shopping' factors, the 'after-thoughts' of consumers after the experience and the demographics and psychographics of consumers.

  1. factors which motivate consumers to shop in large stores, influence of 'non-shopping' factors, the 'after-thoughts' of consumers after the experience and the demographics and psychographics of consumers

  2. of factors which motivate consumers to shop in large stores, of influence of 'non-shopping' factors, of the 'after-thoughts' of consumers after the experience, their demographics and psychographics

  3. factors which motivate consumers to shop in large stores, on influence of 'non-shopping' factors, the 'after-thoughts' of consumers after the experience and their demographics and psychographics

  4. factors which motivate them to shop in large stores, influence of 'non-shopping' factors, their 'after-thoughts' after the experience and their demographics and psychographics

  5. factors which motivate consumers to shop in large stores, influence 'non-shopping' factors, the 'after-thoughts' of consumers and their demographics and psychographics

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B Correct answer
Explanation

The things that need to be enumerated need to be clearly identified. The option does that by adding the preposition before each such 'thing'. Also the repetitive mention of 'of consumers' is replaced by possessive pronoun.