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.

The proposition before the house is this; if we want peace, we must have prepared for war.

  1. must be prepared

  2. must be preparing

  3. must prepared

  4. No improvement required
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A Correct answer
Explanation

To make the passive voice of this sentence, the auxiliary “be” must be added after 'must' and (1) satisfies this condition. Hence, (1) is the correct answer.

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