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.

With no laws regulating the amount of money a political party can raise and unscrupulous lobbyists that exploit the loopholes in the system, political watchdog bodies fear that future elections will be tilted in favor of moneyed candidates.

  1. With no laws regulating the amount of money a political party can raise and unscrupulous lobbyists that exploit the loopholes in the system, political watchdog bodies fear that future elections will be

  2. Without any laws regulating the amount of money a political party can raise and with unscrupulous lobbyists that exploit the loopholes in the system, political watchdog bodies fear that future elections will be

  3. With no laws regulating the amount of money a political party can raise and with unscrupulous lobbyists exploiting the loopholes in the system, political watchdog bodies fear that future elections will be

  4. With no laws regulating the amount of money a political party can raise and with unscrupulous lobbyists exploiting the loopholes in the system, future elections will be, fear political watchdog bodies,

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Correct. The option removes the Error of Parallelism by using 'with no laws' and 'with unscrupulous'. Also, the modifying clause - 'With no laws…in the system' is followed immediately by the noun it is modifying - 'future elections'.