Multiple choice

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

The members of European Union want to determine whether the EU can collect crude oil import needs figures of all member states, negotiate collectively with the suppliers, and devise a method by which they can be billed, depending upon their purchase quantity.

  1. devise a method by which they can be billed, depending

  2. devise a method by which it can be billed, depending

  3. devise a method by which to bill the member nations which depends

  4. bill the member nations according to a pre-devised method that depends

  5. devise a method with which the member nations can be billed, depending

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

Correct. The option removes the error of dangling modifier by replacing 'they' with 'member states'.