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 NASA Global Hawk is well-suited for hurricane investigations because it can over fly hurricanes at altitudes great than 60,000 feet with flight durations of up to 28 hours, something piloted aircraft would find nearly impossible to do.

  1. The NASA Global Hawk is well-suited for hurricane investigations because it can over fly hurricanes at altitudes great than 60,000 feet

  2. The NASA Global Hawk is well-suited for hurricane investigations because it can over fly hurricanes at altitudes greater than 60,000 feet

  3. The NASA Global Hawk is well-suited for hurricane investigations because it can fly hurricanes at altitudes great than 60,000 feet

  4. The NASA Global Hawk is well-suited for hurricane investigations because its can over fly hurricanes at altitudes greater than 60,000 feet

  5. The NASA Global Hawk is well-suited for hurricane investigations because it can over fly hurricanes at an altitudes greater than 60,000 feet

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

(A) is incorrect because positive degree of adjective (great) is used instead of comparative degree (greater) as ‘than’ is used which is used in comparisons. (C) is incorrect because of error verbal phrase (fly over is the correct usage). (D) is incorrect because of usage of possessive pronoun ‘its’ in place of a demonstrative ‘it’. (E) is incorrect because with plural noun (altitudes), indefinite article ‘an’ is used.