Multiple choice

Which of the options best fills the gap 12?

Directions: Read the passage and complete the gaps to make meaningful sentences.

Jane Austen’s novels ------9----- an exactness of structure and a symmetry of form. In Pride and Prejudice the plot is -----10----- chief interest, simple but pervasive. Austen’s later novels, Mansfield Park and Emma ------11-------  longer and more elaborate than other novels. The incidents happen so naturally out of the influence of character on character, that we ------12-----  that they are part of a design or scheme.

  1. did not feel

  2. do not feel

  3. seem not to feel

  4. seem to feel
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The tense is present and the subject is plural; so 'do not feel' is correct. The sense conveyed is that incidents seem so natural that we do not feel they are 

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