Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentence tests correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of the sentence or the entire sentence is underlined. Beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. 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.

The most interesting and the important 15 years in the records of English dramatic literature is undoubtedly those among 1588 and 1603, within which limit all of Shakespeare's poems and the majority of his plays were written.

  1. The most interesting and the important 15 years in the records of English dramatic literature is undoubtedly those among

  2. An interesting and the important 15 years in the records of English dramatic literature is undoubtedly those among

  3. The interesting and the important 15 years in the records of English dramatic literature is undoubtedly those between

  4. The most interesting and important 15 years in the records of English dramatic literature are undoubtedly those between
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Explanation

corrects the errors of article 'the'; subject-verb agreement 'years …is'; and preposition 'among'.

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