Multiple choice

As the author suggests, it is a lack of great ideas that have only left advertisers with symbolism, interpretation and deconstruction.

  1. As the author suggests, it is a lack of great ideas that have only left advertisers with

  2. Advertisers, the author suggests, who lack of great ideas and leave only

  3. The author suggests that a lack of great ideas has left advertisers with only

  4. It is the authors’ suggestion that a lack of great ideas have left advertisers only with

  5. It is only a lack of great ideas, the author suggests, which leave advertisers with
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Option (1) is incorrect because of  subject-verb disagreement ‘lack ... have’. Option (2) is grammatically incorrect because of poor structure ‘who lack of great ideas’. Option (4) is again incorrect because of subject verb disagreement ‘lack  ...  have’. Option (5) again shows subject verb disagreement  ‘lack ... leave’. Hence (3).

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