Multiple choice

Direction: The following sentence test correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Choice A repeats the original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A; if not, select one of the other choices.

Ingeniously embroidered in the traditional manner, the clothes designer displayed the dress in the display window.

  1. Ingeniously embroidered in the traditional manner, the clothes designer displayed the dress in the display window.

  2. The clothes designer, ingeniously embroidered in the traditional manner, displayed the dress in the display window.

  3. The clothes designer displayed the dress, ingeniously embroidered in the traditional manner, in the display window.

  4. The clothes designer ingeniously displayed the display window, embroidered in the traditional manner, with the dress.

  5. The clothes designer displayed the dress in the display window, ingeniously embroidered in the traditional manner.

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C Correct answer
Explanation

(C): The error lies in the wrong phrasing done. Remember it's not the clothes designer or the display window, which is ingeniously embroidered, but it is the dress which is embroidered and displayed. Hence (C) represents the best phrasing.

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