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 the Bull Run, to escape the charging bull, the boys all jumped into a drain and all later emerged all covered in grime.

  1. At the Bull Run, to escape the charging bull, the boys all jumped into a drain and all later emerged all covered in grime.

  2. To escape a charging bull at the Bull Run, a drain was jumped into by all the boys and they emerged later all covered in grime.

  3. To escape the charge of the charging bull at the Bull Run, all the boys jumped into a drain and later emerged covered in all grime.

  4. All the boys jumped into a drain to escape the wrath of a charging bull and all emerged later covered in grime at the Bull Run.

  5. At the Bull Run, all the boys jumped into a drain to escape a charging bull and later emerged all covered in grime.

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E Correct answer
Explanation

Correct; the sentence is in active voice where the subject of the sentence (boys) is doing the action (jumping) into the drain. Also, the use of 'all' before 'covered in grime' suggest that the boys were totally covered in grime when they came out of the drain.