Multiple choice

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.

Police ransacks their homes looking for arms; they brutalize men, women and children.

  1. Police ransacks their homes looking for arms;

  2. Police ransack their homes looking for arms;

  3. Police ransacks their homes to look for arms;

  4. Police has ransacked their homes looking for arms;

  5. Police ransacks their home in the look for arms;

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B Correct answer
Explanation

The original sentence bears the error of subject-verb agreement error. Singular verb 'ransacks' has been used for a plural subject 'police' (they brutalise). This option rectifies the error (police ransack).