Question

The sentence has four underlined words or phrases. Choose the word or phrase that must be changed for the sentence to be correct:

He is one of the shrewdest men that is in the administration.

• A. one
• B. men
• C. that is
• D. the

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

that is

The given sentence begins with 'he' indicating that it is about a person. 'One of the shrewdest men' is correct in terms of subject-verb agreement. 'That is' is incorrect as pronoun 'that' is used for non-living things whereas the sentence talks about a person. Therefore, the word/phrase that needs to be changed for the sentence to be correct is option C) that is. The other underlined words are correctly used in the sentence and so options A, B and C are incorrect.