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 difficulties of the Moor family represent a unique kind of affliction that should not have been and that have somehow been especially visited upon them, and they are into this mess precisely because, unlike Stacey Price, the oral expression of George Moore is completely dull and woody.

  1. unlike Stacy Price, the oral expression of George Moore

  2. unlike the diction of Stacy Price, the oral expression of George Moore

  3. unalike the diction of Stacey Price, George Moore's oral expression

  4. the oral expression of George Moore that is dissimilar to Stacy Price's

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Explanation

Explanation for (1): Type of error: Parallel comparison

The given sentence makes an incorrect comparison between 'Stacy Price' and 'the oral expression of George Moore'.

Justification for (2): The given option rectifies the 'Lemons and Bananas' error of comparing two dissimilar things. It clearly compares 'the diction of Stacey Price' to 'the oral expression of George Moore'.
Explanation for (3): The option makes a correct comparison of the oral expression of 'George Moore' and that of 'Stacy Price' but the comparable sentence parts are not structurally similar.
Explanation for (4): The option makes no grammatical sense. Explanation for (5): The option repeats the incorrect comparison between 'Stacy Price' and 'the oral expression of George Moore'.