Directions: Read the Following Excerpt Adapted from the Health Textbook

question 3

Multiple Choice

Directions: Read the following excerpt adapted from the health textbook An Invitation to Health: Choosing to Change (p. 400) by Dianne Hales. Apply the knowledge you have gained about verbs from Chapter 19 to select the best answer for the following questions.
        ¹ An estimated 8 million adults in the United States have alcohol dependence.²Only a minority are undergoing treatment for alcohol-related problems.³Until recent years, the only options for professional alcohol treatment were, as one expert puts it, "intensive, extensive, and expensive," such as residential programs at hospitals or specialized treatment centers.⁴Today individuals with alcohol problems have chosen from a variety of approaches, including medication, behavioral therapy, or both.⁵Patients are treated with several kinds of programs.⁶Treating with one kind of therapy may work well for one person but may not work for another.⁷As research into the outcomes of alcohol treatment has grown, more attempts are made to match individuals to approaches tailored to their needs and more likely to help them overcome their alcohol problems.⁸A wide variety of treatments may offer help and hope to those with alcohol-related problems.
What writing problem can be found in sentence 4?

• A) subject-verb agreement problem
• B) pronoun-antecedent problem
• C) incorrect spelling of verb form
• D) incorrect verb form

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