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Question 50

Only Dev handles the master key. Choose the standard simple-present form of hold, keeping the relative clause about Dev alone: Dev is the only one of the assistants who ___ the master key.

  1. holdsCorrect answer
  2. hold
  3. are holding
  4. have held

Explanation

Holds is singular because the context makes Dev alone, the phrase headed by one, the antecedent of who. Hold remains possible under a plural attachment to assistants in an unscoped sentence, but that reading contradicts the explicit premise here; the other forms do not meet the simple-present instruction.

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