Hi,
Can you please tell me the answer for below SC.
People in the north central region of the United States use certain utterances that distinguish their speech from other regions.
(A) distinguish their speech from
(B) distinguishes their manner of speaking from
(C) distinguish their speech from that of
(D) distinguish the way they speak from
(E) distinguishes their speech from those of
Thanks,
Roopa.
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Only C and E maintain the correct parallelism -- comparing speechroopa_kollu wrote:Hi,
Can you please tell me the answer for below SC.
People in the north central region of the United States use certain utterances that distinguish their speech from other regions.
(A) distinguish their speech from
(B) distinguishes their manner of speaking from
(C) distinguish their speech from that of
(D) distinguish the way they speak from
(E) distinguishes their speech from those of
Thanks,
Roopa.
to speech. E has incorrect "those" to compare "speech". Also "utterances
that" needs to be followed by plural "distinguish".
Another C
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