Multiple choice

Directions: The following question presents a sentence, part of which or all of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

For people who have never worked for a living, any job may instill a valuable sense of self-worth and open doors to better jobs in the future.

  1. may instill a valuable sense of self-worth and open doors to better jobs in the future

  2. might instill for them a valuable sense of self- worth and to open doors to better jobs in the future

  3. may, in them, instill a valuable sense of self-worth, opening their doors to better jobs in the future

  4. opening the door later for a better job and giving them a valuable sense of self-worth now

  5. may open the door for a better job later and giving them a valuable sense now of their self-worth
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Option A correctly uses parallel structure with 'may instill' and 'open doors' both as bare infinitive verbs following 'may.' The phrase 'any job may instill a valuable sense of self-worth and open doors to better jobs in the future' is grammatically correct and maintains parallel verb forms. Option B incorrectly mixes 'might instill' with infinitive 'to open.' Option C uses awkward phrasing 'in them' that disrupts the flow. Options D and E change the verb structure and use 'giving them' which creates parallelism issues.

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