Multiple choice

For many hikers, guided tours often turn out to be far more expensive than they originally seemed.

  1. they originally seemed

  2. they originally seem to

  3. they seemingly would cost originally

  4. it seemed originally

  5. it originally seemed they would
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A Correct answer
Explanation

‘Guided tours’ being a plural needs a plural pronoun – ‘they’. ‘Seemed’ in past tense is the correct usage as ‘seeming’ had occurred earlier than when the tour was undertaken. Hence (1)

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