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.

While attempting to scale the Mount Everest for the first time ever, each of the team's members - Tom Bourdillon, Charles Evans, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay - were on course to reach the summit, but two of them had to turn back after their Oxygen tanks failed just 300 feet from the summit.

  1. each of the team's members - Tom Bourdillon, Charles Evans, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay - were on course to reach the summit, but two of them had to turn back

  2. all of the team's members - Tom Bourdillon, Charles Evans, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay - were on course to reach the summit, but two of them had to turn back

  3. Tom Bourdillon, Charles Evans, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay - everyone of the team members was on course to reach the summit, but two of them had to turn back

  4. Tom Bourdillon, Charles Evans, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay - all of the team members were on course to reach the summit, but had to turn back two of them
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Correct. The option changes 'each' - which requires a singular verb, to 'all', which takes a plural verb, thereby resolving the Subject-Verb agreement error.

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