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 experiment in fact accounts for the origin of only one element of the dreams; the rest of their content seems too self-contained, too definite in its details, for being explained solely by the necessity for fitting in with the element experimentally introduced from outside.

  1. the rest of their content seems too self-contained, too definite in its details, for being explained

  2. the rest of their content seems too self-contained, too definite in its details, to be explicable

  3. the rest of their content seems too self-contained, too definite in its details, for explaining

  4. the rest of their content seems too self-contained, too definite in its details, to explain

  5. the rest of their content seems too self-contained, too definite in its details, and explained
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The original sentence uses the progressive form 'ing' to follow the adverb 'too'. This option puts the infinitive form to correct the error.

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