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.

Travel agents are market intermediaries who make their living by gathering, organizing, and dispensing information about travel-related services that are not readily available to most consumers through new information technologies, such as the internet.

  1. Travel agents are market intermediaries who make their living by gathering, organizing, and dispensing information about travel-related services that are not readily available to most consumers through new information technologies, such as the internet.

  2. Travel agents are market intermediaries who make their living by gathering, by organizing, and dispensing information about travel-related services that is not readily available to most consumers through new information technologies, such as the internet.

  3. Market intermediaries, who make their living by gathering, organizing, and dispensing information about travel-related services that are not readily available to most consumers through new information technologies, are called travel agents, such as the internet

  4. Travel agents are market intermediaries who make their living by gathering, organizing, and dispensing information about travel-related services that is not readily available to most consumers through new information technologies, such as the internet.

  5. Travel agents are intermediaries that make their livelihood by gathering, organizing, and dispensing information about travel-related services that is not readily available to most consumers through new information technologies, such as the internet.

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Correct; removes subject-verb error by using singular verb (is) for a singular subject (information)