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 the best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose any one of the others.

Although nothing that could be called a spelling reform “movement” existed until the 19^th century, there was earlier period when this subject was much in the air and a number of people were writing about it.