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 relative decline in manufacturing jobs in rich countries has coincided with a rapid increase in manufactured exports from countries such as China and Brazil, prompting many a rich country voters to assume that these new upstarts are stealing their jobs, and that the solution lies in job subsidies and trade barriers.

  1. prompting many rich country voters to assume that these new upstarts are stealing their jobs

  2. prompting many a rich country voters to assume that these new upstarts are stealing their jobs

  3. prompting many rich country's voters to assume that these upstarts are stealing their jobs

  4. prompting many rich countries' voters to assume that these new upstarts are stealing their jobs

  5. prompting many rich country voters to assume that these upstarts are stealing their jobs

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

The original sentence suffers from the error of redundancy. There is no point in using 'new' with 'upstarts'. This option removes the redundant 'new'