Part of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A.
The well-preserved, 121-million-year-old fossilized bird embryo on display at the museum has several features that suggest that its young could move about and feed themselves very soon after they hatched.
- its
- her
- their
- the species’
- for this species
Choice (D) is correct. It avoids the pronoun reference error of the original by using “the species” to indicate the kind of birds (birds of the same species) whose “young could move about … hatched.”
Question Type: Improving Sentences
(Writing)
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