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.

At a large university, one will always be able to find a friend who speaks one's language.

  1. who speaks one's language

  2. who speaks yourself language

  3. who speaks language

  4. who do not speaks your language

  5. who spoke your language

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

The given sentence is correct and needs no further improvement. Pronoun (one's) is correct and it correctly refers to its antecedent 'one'. (2) is incorrect because of wrong pronoun (yourself). (3) is incorrect because there is no pronoun in it. (4) is incorrect because negation has been used in it. (5) is incorrect because the verb (speaks) is converted into past tense.