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Writing>Improving Sentences

Part or all 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.

Listening to good storybooks sharpen children's awareness and appreciation for the sounds of spoken language.

(A) sharpen children's awareness
(B) sharpens children's awareness of
(C) are what sharpens the awareness of children
(D) sharpens the awareness of children
(E) is to sharpen children's awareness

答案和解析

答案：B

解析：

Choice (B) is correct. It avoids the subject-verb agreement error of the original by using the singular verb "sharpens" to agree with the singular subject "Listening."