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. Because of the accident, toxic fumes were released into the atmosphere, and the inhabitants of several communities had to be relocated to an army base from their homes 20 miles away.

Justification for (4): The ordering of the phrases “to an army base”, “from their homes”, and “20 miles away” does not correctly reflect the logic of the underlying thought of the sentence. (4) represents the best ordering of those phrases. Explanation for (5): The ordering of the phrases “to an army base”, “from their homes”, and “20 miles away” does not correctly reflect the logic of the underlying thought of the sentence. Although (5) uses the correct order, it introduces an error in its use of “has”. “Has” fails to agree with the subject, and is the wrong verb tense.