Multiple choice

Directions: The 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.

When a captain does not agree with these teammate's decision, he is bound to be frustrated.

  1. agree with these teammate's

  2. agree with this teammate's

  3. agree with some teammate's

  4. agree with his teammates'
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

(4) is grammatically the most correct option. (1) is incorrect because of usage of 'these', which is used to refer to plural nouns. (2) is incorrect because 'this' is a pointer that can't be derived from the sentence. (3) is incorrect because use of distributive pronoun 'some' with “mate's” is wrong. (5) is incorrect because the distributive pronoun 'a few' is plural but “mate's” is singular.

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