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.

A movie director, in order to bring in the audiences, must acknowledge that the plot of a movie is as important as how convincing the actors are in their roles.

  1. the plot of a movie is

  2. plot of the movie can be

  3. how the plotting of a movie is, is

  4. how engrossing the plot of the movie is, is

  5. the plotting of a movie is

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Correct. The option removes the Error of Parallelism; 'how engrossing the plot' is parallel to 'how convincing the actors'.