Asked by Emastos
Read the following and then choose the best revision for the portion enclosed by brackets of the paragraph.
When you see a marathon runner stumble across the finish line, exhausted after a journey that would cause the average person to keel over dead, do you ["say so what! Anyone can do that?"]1 Maybe you [wouldn't. But, many] people would assert that yes, anyone can do it, and, as a matter of fact, we are made for it.
1. A. NO CHANGE
B. say "So what!": anyone can do that?
C. say "So what! anyone can do that".
D. say, "so what! Anyone can do that"?
2. F. NO CHANGE
G. wouldn't, but many
H. would not; therefore,
J. wouldn't. But many
When you see a marathon runner stumble across the finish line, exhausted after a journey that would cause the average person to keel over dead, do you ["say so what! Anyone can do that?"]1 Maybe you [wouldn't. But, many] people would assert that yes, anyone can do it, and, as a matter of fact, we are made for it.
1. A. NO CHANGE
B. say "So what!": anyone can do that?
C. say "So what! anyone can do that".
D. say, "so what! Anyone can do that"?
2. F. NO CHANGE
G. wouldn't, but many
H. would not; therefore,
J. wouldn't. But many