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.

Using trade councils, governmental setup and media, corporates continue to insist that theirs is a harmless heritage product, despite unilateral agreement in the past by a textile ministry committee that the best solution for artisans was to look in the alternatives.

  1. corporates continue to insist that theirs is a harmless heritage product, despite unilateral agreement in the past by a textile ministry committee that the best solution for artisans was to look in the alternatives.

  2. corporates continue to insist that theirs is a harmless heritage product, despite unilateral agreement in the past by a textile ministry committee that the best solution for artisans was to look into the alternatives.

  3. corporates continue to insist that theirs are a harmless heritage product, despite unilateral agreement in the past by a textile ministry committee that the best solution for artisans was to look into the alternatives.

  4. corporates continue to insist that theirs is a harmless heritage product, despite unilateral agreement in the past by a textile ministry committee that the best solution for artisans were to look in the alternatives.

  5. corporates continue to insist that theirs is a harmless heritage product, despite unilaterally agreement in the past by a textile ministry committee that the best solution for artisans was to look into the alternatives.

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B Correct answer
Explanation

is incorrect because of violation of subject verb agreement. 'theirs' is a singular subject and shall be accompanied by a singular verb. (Correct usage is theirs is).