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.

To get an administrative system that would do more good than damage, it would be far better to draw people from fields of life as diverse as possible; and that too, after they had developed the maturity to understand what really needed to be done.

  1. after they had developed the maturity to understand what really needed to be done

  2. after they developed the maturity to understand what really needed to be done

  3. after they have developed the maturity to understand what really needs to be done

  4. after they develop the maturity to understand what really needed to be done

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

“It would be far better…” would take us into the future. But 'developed' and 'needed' in the original sentence would take us inappropriately into the past. This option corrects both the errors.