Multiple choice

Direction: The following sentence tests 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.

The book is divided into three main sections, the first dealing in eight chapters with various modern phases of oceanic biology, the second part pictured the dynamics of waves and the last three discussing man and the sea about him.

  1. the first dealing in eight chapters with various modern phases of oceanic biology, the second part pictured the dynamics of waves and the last three discussing man and the sea about him

  2. the first dealing in eight chapters with various modern phases of oceanic biology, the second part pictured the dynamics of waves and the last three discussed man and sea about him

  3. the first dealt in eight chapters with various modern phases of oceanic biology, the second part pictured the dynamics of waves and the last three discussed man and the sea about him

  4. the first dealing in eight chapters with various modern phases of oceanic biology, the second part picturing the dynamics of waves and the last three discussing man and the sea about him

  5. the first deals in eight chapters with various modern phases of oceanic biology, the second part pictures the dynamics of waves and the last three discussing man and the sea about him
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D Correct answer
Explanation

(4): The problem lies in faulty parallelism. Options (A), (B) and (E) do not state the functions of the three sections in the same Verb tense. Option (C) states them in the same verb tense but it uses the past tense, while present tense is used in the previous clause.

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