Question

Edit the following narrative by choosing the appropriate word from the options given at the end of the paragraph.

(a) Wander along the streets of New York City, my daughters and (b) me stop at shoe stores wherever we (c) happens to be. This is their choice. These women, who as little (d) girl, teetered around the house (e) balances like cranes in my mother’s high heels. I (f) sits on the bench and wait while they try on shoe (g) on shoe readjusting their positions in (h) a mirror, eyes downcast considering their feet. 

“So?” one of them (i) will ask me. “What do you think of these?” “I love them,” I say about (j) all pairs.

(a) (i) wandered (ii) wandering (iii) were wandering (iv) was wandering

(b) (i) they (ii) I (iii) we (iv) us

(c) (i) happen (ii) happened (iii) are happening (iv) are happened

(d) (i) girls (ii) woman (iii) boys (iv) people

(e) (i) are balancing (ii) is balancing (iii) balanced (iv) balance

(f) (i) sit (ii) am sitting (iii) sat (iv) was sitting

(g)  (i) after (ii) before (iii) in (iv) by

(h) (i) that (ii) the (iii) their (iv) x

(i) (i) is asking (ii) asks (iii) are asking (iv) asked

(j) (i) every (ii) few (iii) some (iv) a

Answer 1

(a) Wandering along the streets of New York City, my daughters and (b) I stop at shoe stores wherever we (c) happen to be. This is their choice. These women, who as little (d) girls teetered around the house (e) are balancing like cranes in my mother’s high heels. I (f) sit on the bench and wait while they try on shoe (g) after  shoe readjusting their positions in (h) the mirror, eyes downcast considering their feet. 

“So?” one of them (i) asks me. “What do you think of these?” “I love them,” I say about (j) a pairs.