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Click on the clearest, most concise sentence. |
| | A) | India,
Pakistan, Tibet, and Nepal are home to the Himalayas, the tallest mountains in the world. |
| | B) | India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Nepal are home to the Himalayan mountains. The Himalayas are the tallest mountains in the world. |
| | C) | India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Nepal are home to the Himalayan mountains, which are, in point of
fact, the tallest in the world. |
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Click on the clearest, most
concise sentence. |
| | A) | Canada signed the North American Free Trade
Agreement with Mexico and the United States, which are very close commercial partners of Canada. |
| | B) | Canada signed the North American Free Trade Agreement with two of its closest commercial partners: Mexico and the United
States. |
| | C) | Canada signed the North American Free Trade Agreement treaty with
Mexico and the United States. Mexico and the United States are two of Canada's closest commercial partners. |
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Click on the clearest, most concise sentence. |
| | A) | Henry Ford developed the first automotive assembly line in the United States. |
| | B) | Henry Ford developed the first automotive plant to build cars the United States. |
| | C) | Henry Ford developed the first assembly line for the purpose of building cars in United States. |
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Click on the clearest, most concise sentence. |
| | A) | The chemistry instructor combined the liquids together. |
| | B) | The chemistry instructor combined the liquids. |
| | C) | The chemistry instructor combined the chemicals, in liquid form, together. |
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Click on the clearest, most concise sentence. |
| | A) | The painting is totally without value. |
| | B) | The painting is
without value. |
| | C) | The painting is worthless and without value. |
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Click on the clearest, most concise sentence. |
| | A) | We need to practice fundamentals. |
| | B) | We need to practice
fundamentals important to the discipline. |
| | C) | We need to practice the most
basic fundamentals. |
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Click on the clearest, most concise sentence. |
| | A) | Iago is the evil villain in Shakespeare's tragedy
Othello. |
| | B) | Iago is the villain in Shakespeare's play
Othello, a tragedy. |
| | C) | Iago is the villain in Shakespeare's
tragedy Othello. |
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Click on the
clearest, most concise sentence. |
| | A) | In Hamlet's honest opinion,
something was rotten in Denmark. |
| | B) | In Hamlet's opinion, something was rotten
in Denmark. |
| | C) | Hamlet thought that something was rotten in Denmark, in his
opinion. |
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Click on the clearest, most concise sentence. |
| | A) | He is a committed worker but a slow plodder. |
| | B) | He is a dedicated, committed worker but a plodder. |
| | C) | He is a dedicated worker but a plodder. |
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Click on the clearest, most concise sentence. |
| | A) | She accused him of being a messy slob as she dripped jelly on her clean shirt. |
| | B) | She accused him of being a slob as she dripped jelly on her clean shirt. |
| | C) | As she dripped jelly on her immaculately clean shirt, she accused him of being a slob. |
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Click on the clearest, most concise sentence. |
| | A) | One of the world's most prolific and productive writers, France's Honor� Balzac published nearly eighty novels and
stories. |
| | B) | One of the world's most prolific writers in all of literature,
France's Honor� Balzac published nearly eighty novels and stories. |
| | C) | One of
the world's most prolific writers, France's Honor� Balzac published nearly eighty novels and stories. |
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Click on the clearest, most concise passage. |
| | A) | Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary was first published in serial form in La Revue de
Paris, episode by episode. A story of illicit love, the work was condemned by the authorities, and Flaubert was tried for immorality. |
| | B) | Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary was first published in serial form in La Revue
de Paris. A story of illicit love, the work was condemned by the authorities, and Flaubert was tried for immorality. |
| | C) | Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary was first published in serial form in La Revue de Paris. A
story of illicit love, the work was condemned and censured by the authorities, and Flaubert was tried for immorality. |
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