Multiple choice

Directions: The underlined part of the sentence below may have some errors. Five options are given below the sentence. Choose the option that improves the sentence. If the sentence has no error, choose option 5 as your answer.

The hackers were programmers who simply could break into the computer to see its code - the statements written by the original programmers to specify the actions to be performed by a computer.

  1. The hackers were programmers who could break into the computer simply to see its code

  2. The hackers were programmers who could break into the computer to see simply its code

  3. The programmers were hackers who could simply break into the computer to see its code

  4. The hackers were programmers who could simply break into the computer to see its code

  5. No improvement required
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Here, change of place of 'simply' rectifies the error of its misplacement. Adverb 'simply' is used before the word for which it is used.

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