Multiple choice

Playing cricket for India was Manju's dream, like her brother's when he was her age.

 

Each of the sentence correction questions presents a sentence, part or all 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. Follow the requirements of standard written English to choose your answer, paying attention to grammar, word choice and sentence construction. Select the answer that produces the most effective sentence; your answer should make the sentence clear, exact and free of grammatical error. It should also minimize awkwardness, ambiguity and redundancy.

 

  1. like her brother's when he was her age

  2. like her brother's dream when he was her age

  3. as her brother's when he was her age

  4. as it was for her brother when he was her age

  5. as it was of her brother when he was her age

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E Correct answer
Explanation

'as it was of her brother' is correct  because 'Playing Cricket was ... dream' is in parallel to 'as it was of'.