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.

If you find that you have almost run around the apartment twenty times, nearly climbed into thirty cars and are finally being driven off somewhere you hadn't planned to go, just get out and return to the side of the road.

  1. If you find that you have almost run around the apartment twenty times, nearly climbed into thirty cars

  2. If you find that you have nearly run around the apartment twenty times and climbed into almost thirty cars

  3. If you find that you have run around the apartment almost twenty times and nearly climbed into thirty cars

  4. If you find that you have run around the apartment almost twenty times, climbed into nearly thirty cars

  5. If you almost find that you have run around the apartment twenty times, climbed nearly into thirty cars
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The given sentence is correct because of the correct placement of the modifiers - 'almost' and 'nearly'. A modifier should be placed as close as possible to what it modifies. Almost modifies 'twenty times' and nearly modifies 'thirty cars'.

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