Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentences have been split into five parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error.

  1. Among different languages, even if we cannot suspect the least connection or communication,

  2. it is found that the words, expressive of ideas, the most compounded,

  3. do yet nearly correspond to each other:

  4. a certain proof that the simple ideas, comprehended in the compound ones,

  5. were bound together by some universal principle, which had an equal influence on all mankind

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Explanation

Error of correlative conjunction. 'Yet' in (3) should be preceded by 'though' in place of 'if' in (1).