Directions: The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Choice A repeats the original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A. If not, select one of the other choices.

Just as Shakespeare’s plays and Alexander Scott’s poetry give an insight into the English society of the time, Arthur Conan Doyle’s crime and mystery stories takes the reader inside the nineteenth century London.