Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentence has an underlined part. Five different ways of phrasing the underlined part are given. Choose the best alternative among the five. If the underlined part is correct as it is, mark (1) as your answer.

The political masters of the health care system have not listened to professional health planners because it has not been profitable for them to do that thing.

  1. has not been profitable for them to do that thing

  2. has not been profitable for them to do so

  3. has been unprofitable for them to do that thing

  4. has been unprofitable for them to do so

  5. doing so had not been profitable for them
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B Correct answer
Explanation

‘That thing’ in the given sentence is incorrect; 'and' needs to be replaced by a simple ‘so’. Hence, option (2) is the answer.

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