Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentence tests correctness and effectiveness of expression. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice (1); if not, select one of the other choices.

Under new rules, the school teachers are either required to give lenient marks to weak students or that they hold extra classes for them.

  1. that they hold

  2. for holding

  3. that they should hold

  4. hold

  5. it should hold
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

(D): Under grammatical parallelism, 'give'…….'hold' is correct. The rest of the choices offer syntactic structures that are not parallel.

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