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.

M. F Hussain, the famous Indian painter, credited beautiful faces with having had a strong influence on his work.

  1. with having had

  2. for it’s having

  3. to have had

  4. for having

  5. in that it had
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A Correct answer
Explanation

(A): Only A is correct because the idiom in English is to credit something “with”. Both “for” and “to” can be used idiomatically when credit is a noun as in “M. F Hussain gave credit ‘to’ beautiful faces ‘for’ having a strong influence on his work”.

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