Question

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

More than one scientists have contributed to the success of this venture.

• A. Mor than
• B. scientists
• C. contributed
• D. venture

Answer 1

The correct option is B scientists

The sentence begins with 'more than one' which is a grammatically correct phrase and need not be changed. The phrase 'more than one' is used to indicate plural of the singular noun that follows the phrase. In the sentence, the noun that follows the phrase is 'scientists' which is a plural for singular noun 'scientist'. Therefore, the correct noun that should follow the phrase 'more than one' is scientist. The word that needs to change to make the sentence a correct one is option B) scientists.

The other underlined words- 'contributed' and 'venture' are correctly used in the sentence and need not be changed.