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.

The Health Minister of the state acknowledged that despite some stellar initiatives by social activists and altruistic doctors, an extraordinary high percentage of their rural people do not have access to quality health care

  1. an extraordinary high percentage of their rural people do not have access to quality health care

  2. an extraordinarily high percentage of its rural people does not have access to quality health care

  3. an extraordinary high percentage of quality health care is not accessible to its rural people

  4. an extraordinarily high percentage of their rural people do not have access to quality health care

  5. an extraordinarily high percentage of its rural people fail to get quality health care
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Correct; removes pronoun error by using 'its' to refer to the state's population; uses the correct adverb 'extraordinarily' to modify 'high percentage'

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