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.
One cannot easily realize what a tremendous thing it is to know every trivial detail of twelve hundreds miles of river and know it with absolute exactness.

  1. what a tremendous thing it is to know every trivial detail of twelve hundreds miles of river

  2. such a tremendous thing it is to know every trivial detail of twelve hundreds miles

  3. what a tremendous thing it is to know every trivial detail of twelve hundred miles river

  4. what a tremendous thing it is to know every trivial details of twelve hundred miles of river
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C Correct answer
Explanation

(C): Whenever a unit of measurement indicates a specific quantity and is immediately followed by a plural noun. We use it in singular. Hence options (A), (B) and (E) are incorrect. Option (D) lacks agreement, with indefinite pronoun we use noun in the singular form “detail”.

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