Multiple choice

Directions: Given below is a sentence with an underlined part. The underlined part may or may not have an error. Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to make the sentence correct. If the underlined part is correct as it is, mark (1) as your answer.

Analysts blamed May’s sluggish retail sales on unexciting merchandise as well as the weather, colder and wetter than was usual in some regions, which slowed sales of barbecue grills and lawn furniture.

  1. colder and wetter than was usual in some regions, which slowed

  2. which was colder and wetter than usual in some regions, slowing

  3. since it was colder and wetter than usually in some regions, which slowed

  4. being colder and wetter than usually in some regions, slowing

  5. having been colder and wetter than was usual in some regions and slowed
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Error of pronoun usage. Here, to refer to the subject 'weather', we need a relative pronoun. Hence, 'which was' is the needed part.

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