Directions: In each of the following sentences, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four.
The MP rose up to say that in her opinion, she thought the Women’s Reservation Bill should be passed on unanimously.
Explanation:
(a) is the correct answer, as it corrects all the errors in the original sentence. Other options do not.
Redundancy: (i) ‘rose up’: ‘rise’ includes the idea of upward motion.
(ii) ‘in her opinion, she thought’: use either ‘in her opinion’ or ‘she thought’.
Idiom (iii) ‘passed on’: Bills are always ‘passed’ in Parliament. ‘Pass on’ is a phrasal verb and has its own uses.
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