Question

Choose the option that best corrects the underlined word.

One of Jake's colleagues prefer to work during the afternoon and evening shifts.

• A. NO CHANGE
• B. prefers to work
• C. has a preference to work
• D. wish to work

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

prefers to work

The grammatical subject number determines the number of the verb.
The subject in this sentence is singular since we used the word 'one'. Options B and C have singular verbs, but option C is unecessarily wordy. Hence the right option is B.