Multiple choice

The increase in late night study time will result in exhaustion and decreasing the grades of the student.

 

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. and decreasing the grades of the student

  2. thus lead to decreasing the grades of the student

  3. and decrease the grades of the student

  4. and will decrease the grades of the student

  5. and thus, will decrease the grades of the student

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C Correct answer
Explanation

The parallel connection to 'will result' is 'will decrease', but 'will' second time is redundant. So 'decrease the grades' is correct.