Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part 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.
A tortoise desired to change its place of residence, so he asked an eagle that carried him to his new home, promising her a rich reward for her trouble.
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that carried him to
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to carry him to
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that fetched him to
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if it could carry him to
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for carrying him to
B
Correct answer
Explanation
Explanation for (1): 'That' becomes the pronoun for 'eagle'. This results in a sentence fragment. To be idiomatically correct, the sentence requires either a 'to' or a 'for' to complement the subject 'he asked'.
Justification for (2): That' becomes the pronoun for 'eagle'. This results in a sentence fragment. To be idiomatically correct, the sentence requires either a 'to' or a 'for' to complement the subject 'he asked'. This option maintains the correct intention and supplies the necessary verb to complete the sentence.
Explanation for (3): 'That' becomes the pronoun for 'eagle'. This not only changes the meaning, but also results in a sentence fragment.
Explanation for (4): This option is grammatically incorrect as 'could carry' should be followed by 'and prmised'.
Explanation for (5): This option uses 'for' to carry the sentence but is grammatically incorrect.