Multiple choice

Directions: The sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (1), (2), (3) and (4). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct and mark it as your answer.

It (1) was her cleverness (2) and (3) she looks innocent that (4) saved her.

  1. (1)

  2. (2)

  3. (3)

  4. (4)
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C Correct answer
Explanation

(Innocent appearance). Two qualities of a girl are referred to in this sentence. The first one ‘cleverness’ is in the adjective form whereas, the second one ‘she looks innocent’ is an independent clause. In order to maintain parallelism convert the second quality also into an adjective form ‘innocent appearance.’

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