Multiple choice

Directions: In the following sentence, three substitutions are given for each italicised part. If one of them is better than the italicised part, that should be your answer. If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, the answer should be (4).

His job required that he defends the indefensible.

  1. that he should defend

  2. that he defend

  3. that he would defend

  4. No improvement
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Here, the sentence is in the past tense and defend the indefensible has been used as a phrase which stands independent from the preceding noun/pronoun.

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