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 the best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose any one of the others.

She left her studies; she has not able to resume her studies and possibly will never be able to resume.

  1. she has not able to resume her studies and possibly will never be able to resume.

  2. she has not and possibly will not be able to resume her studies.

  3. she has not been and will never be able to resume her studies.

  4. she has not been able and possibly will never be able to resume.

  5. she has not and will never be able to resume her studies.
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Explanation

Explanation for (1): The sentence has error of omission of past participle 'been' and redundancy (able to resume).

Explanation for (2): This option does not rectify the errors.

Explanation for (3): This option introduces another error by deleting 'possibly', which changes the meaning of the sentence.
Explanation for (4): This option corrects the error of omission of past participle 'been' and removes redundancy. Explanation for (5): This option does not rectify the error of omission of past participle 'been' and introduces another error by deleting 'possibly', which changes the meaning of the sentence.

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