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Question 18

Which sentence correctly identifies the alarm that caused the waking?

  1. The alarm, that woke us, was defective.
  2. The alarm that woke us was defective.Correct answer
  3. The alarm woke us was defective.
  4. The alarm that it woke us was defective.

Explanation

That is the subject of woke, so it must remain in the defining relative clause. Omitting it produces the closest distractor, where woke lacks a grammatical link between alarm and the rest of the clause.

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