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.

Astonished and terrified, I go to my office, fall down in the chair and howled.

  1. Astonished and terrified, I go to my office, fall down in the chair and howled

  2. I go to my office, fall down in the chair and howled, astonished and terrified

  3. Astonished and terrified, I went to my office, fall down in the chair and cried

  4. Cried, fell down in the chair, I go to my office, astonished and terrified

  5. Astonished and terrified, I went to my office, fell down in the chair and howled
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

(E): The problem is of faulty parallelism. In all the options; (A), (B), (C) and (D) except (E) unnecessary Verb tense shifts are made.

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