1 I have always detested exploring caves, I believe spelunking is an eerie and unpleasant hobby. 2 However, what happened last week that made me revise my opinion which was going hiking with my friends and stumbling upon a vast unexplored gorge. 3 When we came across the mouth of a dark, grim cave I was immediately filled with trepidation therefore, I said I would stay outside. 4 Much to my surprise, a rainstorm came up forcing me inside to seek shelter. 5 Inside the cave, instead of macabre stalactites and enormous spiders, which I was expecting, I saw the most beautiful crystalline structures, the likes of which I’d never seen before. 6 The sheer pulchritude completely transformed my opinion on caves, I would not denigrate them again.

What is the correct way to rewrite Sentence 4?

1 I have always detested exploring caves, I believe spelunking is an eerie and unpleasant hobby. 2 However, what happened last week that made me revise my opinion which was going hiking with my friends and stumbling upon a vast unexplored gorge. 3 When we came across the mouth of a dark, grim cave I was immediately filled with trepidation therefore, I said I would stay outside. 4 Much to my surprise, a rainstorm came up forcing me inside to seek shelter. 5 Inside the cave, instead of macabre stalactites and enormous spiders, which I was expecting, I saw the most beautiful crystalline structures, the likes of which I’d never seen before. 6 The sheer pulchritude completely transformed my opinion on caves, I would not denigrate them again.

What is the correct way to rewrite Sentence 2?

1 I have always detested exploring caves, I believe spelunking is an eerie and unpleasant hobby. 2 However, what happened last week that made me revise my opinion which was going hiking with my friends and stumbling upon a vast unexplored gorge. 3 When we came across the mouth of a dark, grim cave I was immediately filled with trepidation therefore, I said I would stay outside. 4 Much to my surprise, a rainstorm came up forcing me inside to seek shelter. 5 Inside the cave, instead of macabre stalactites and enormous spiders, which I was expecting, I saw the most beautiful crystalline structures, the likes of which I’d never seen before. 6 The sheer pulchritude completely transformed my opinion on caves, I would not denigrate them again.

What is the correct way to rewrite Sentence 6?

1 I have always detested exploring caves, I believe spelunking is an eerie and unpleasant hobby. 2 However, what happened last week that made me revise my opinion which was going hiking with my friends and stumbling upon a vast unexplored gorge. 3 When we came across the mouth of a dark, grim cave I was immediately filled with trepidation therefore, I said I would stay outside. 4 Much to my surprise, a rainstorm came up forcing me inside to seek shelter. 5 Inside the cave, instead of macabre stalactites and enormous spiders, which I was expecting, I saw the most beautiful crystalline structures, the likes of which I’d never seen before. 6 The sheer pulchritude completely transformed my opinion on caves, I would not denigrate them again.

What is the correct way to rewrite Sentence 1?

Although a work of fiction, Mariama Bâ's 1979 novel, So Long a Let ter is also, in a sense, a manifesto of the female African experience, one that has all too often been consigned to a footnote in history books. Within the overarching colonial narrative of African marginalization, black women have been marginalized farther. In their respective accounts, Jomo Kenyatta and Franz Fanon put their own words in the mouths of female subjects: in more objective histories, women are hardly spoken of at all. By taking a comparative approach, however, the history of African women in the colonial and post-colonial eras can be patched together into something comprehensible. With Bâ’s voice as a guide, a more complex narrative comes out of the darkness of historical silence and bias to revealing significant degrees of female agency and expression.

Replace the bolded and underlined portion with the answer choice that results in a sentence that is clear, precise, and meets the requirements of standard written English. One of the answer choices reproduces the underlined portion as it is written in the sentence.

1 I have always detested exploring caves, I believe spelunking is an eerie and unpleasant hobby. 2 However, what happened last week that made me revise my opinion which was going hiking with my friends and stumbling upon a vast unexplored gorge. 3 When we came across the mouth of a dark, grim cave I was immediately filled with trepidation therefore, I said I would stay outside. 4 Much to my surprise, a rainstorm came up forcing me inside to seek shelter. 5 Inside the cave, instead of macabre stalactites and enormous spiders, which I was expecting, I saw the most beautiful crystalline structures, the likes of which I’d never seen before. 6 The sheer pulchritude completely transformed my opinion on caves, I would not denigrate them again.

What is the correct way to rewrite Sentence 5?

1 I have always detested exploring caves, I believe spelunking is an eerie and unpleasant hobby. 2 However, what happened last week that made me revise my opinion which was going hiking with my friends and stumbling upon a vast unexplored gorge. 3 When we came across the mouth of a dark, grim cave I was immediately filled with trepidation therefore, I said I would stay outside. 4 Much to my surprise, a rainstorm came up forcing me inside to seek shelter. 5 Inside the cave, instead of macabre stalactites and enormous spiders, which I was expecting, I saw the most beautiful crystalline structures, the likes of which I’d never seen before. 6 The sheer pulchritude completely transformed my opinion on caves, I would not denigrate them again.

What is the correct way to rewrite Sentence 3?