Asked by justin

Read the sentence.

Mustufa ran the 100-meter and 200-meter races but the one he had trained for the hardest was the 400-meter competition.

Which is the best revision of this sentence?
Mustufa ran the 100-meter and 200-meter races (but the one he had trained for the hardest) was the 400-meter competition.
Mustufa ran the 100-meter and 200-meter races but the one he had trained for the hardest (was the 400-meter) competition.
Mustufa ran the 100-meter and 200-meter races but (the one he had trained for the hardest was the 400-meter competition).
Mustufa ran the 100-meter and 200-meter races (but the one he had trained for the hardest was the 400-meter competition).

All Answers 1

Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
"Mustufa ran the 100-meter and 200-meter races (but the one he had trained for the hardest was the 400-meter competition)."

This is the best of the given choices because it preserves the full, grammatical clause and clearly indicates the second clause as parenthetical. The other options break the sentence or misplace parts of the clause.