Multiple choice

Directions: Look at the underlined part of the sentence. Below the sentence is given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of the possible substitutions is better than the underlined part, indicate it as your answer. If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (4) as your answer.

Alice bathed, dressed, took breakfast and was going out.

  1. went out

  2. had gone out

  3. is going out

  4. No improvement needed
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Case of parallelism under past indefinite tense. 'Bathed', 'dressed', etc. need to be followed by second form of the verb. Thus, 'went out'.

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