Multiple choice

Direction: Part of the sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined part are given. Choice 1 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 1 if not, select one of the other choices.

Many stores in the Mall have already begun to display summer attractive clothes.

  1. Many stores in the Mall have already begun to display summer attractive clothes.

  2. Many stores in the Mall have began to display fancy summer clothes.

  3. Many stores in the Mall have already begun to display attractive summer clothes.

  4. Summer attractive clothes have already begun to be displayed in many stores in the mall.

  5. The mall is displaying the attractive and fancy summer clothes.
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C Correct answer
Explanation

(3): 'Attractive' is an adjective, which is modifying the noun 'Summer clothes'. So it should be placed before it. (2) option changes the tense. In the (5) option it is not the mall but the stores in the mall, which are displaying the attractive summer clothes.

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