Multiple choice

Directions: Look at the underlined part of the following sentence. Below the sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them is better than the underlined part, indicate it as your response. Otherwise, ‘No improvement’ will be the answer.

The Commissioner gave awards to such men as deserved them.

  1. was giving awards

  2. will be giving awards

  3. awarded

  4. No improvement

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

This is the correct answer as all the verbs in a sentence should be in the same tense. In this context the correct tense for the verbs is the past tense.

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