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.

Recreation is an important factor in improving physical health thereby of reducing human misery and agony.

  1. thereby of reducing human misery and agony.

  2. and thereby of reducing human misery and agony.

  3. and for reducing misery and agony.

  4. thereby reducing human misery and agony.

  5. and thereby reducing human misery and agony.
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E Correct answer
Explanation

Explanation for (1): There is error of conjunction in the sentence. The sentence implies that recreation improves human health, through which it reduces human misery and agony. So, use of 'thereby of' is incorrect in the sentence.

Explanation for (2): The option does not rectify the error although it inserts the conjunction 'and' before 'thereby of', since it fails to delete the redundant 'of'.

Explanation for (3): The option replaces 'thereby of' by 'and for', which does not rectify the error of conjunction.
Explanation for (4): The option does not rectify the error, since a comma splice or the conjunction 'and' should antecede 'thereby'.  Explanation for (5): The sentence implies that recreation improves human health, through which it reduces human misery and agony. This option corrects the error of coordinating conjunction by inserting 'and thereby' in place of 'thereby of'.

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