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Problem

Choose the most appropriate common expressions for the underlined words.

Nowadays, families do not mind sisters, daughter, and wives seeking gainful employment as long as they don’t exercise their right to spend their earnings as they like.

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Clue

An appropriate punctuation mark must separate items in a list, and all listed nouns must be in plural and parallel form for clarity and consistency.

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Hint

The word 'daughter' should be plural in the given sentence.

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Sumup

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Choices

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Choice-A

"Nowadays, families do not mind sisters, daughter, and wives seeking gainful employment as long as they don’t exercise their right to spend their earnings as they like." The sentence is incorrect due to a lack of parallel structure. The list of family members (sisters, daughter, and wives) is not consistent in terms of grammatical structure.

Wrong No change

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Choice-B

"Nowadays, families do not mind sisters-daughters and wives seeking gainful employment as long as they don’t exercise their right to spend their earnings as they like." The sentence is incorrect due to the use of a hyphen between "sisters" and "daughters." Hyphens are generally used to join words or parts of words to form a compound term or to clarify meaning.

Wrong sisters-daughters

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Choice-C

"Nowadays, families do not mind sisters, daughters, and wives seeking gainful employment as long as they don’t exercise their right to spend their earnings as they like." The sentence is correct . It uses an appropriate punctuation mark to separate items in a list, and all listed nouns—sisters, daughters, and wives—are in a consistent plural form. This ensures clarity, maintains parallel structure, and follows the standard rule for listing multiple items.

Correct sisters, daughters,

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Choice-D

"Nowadays, families do not mind sisters (daughter) and wives seeking gainful employment as long as they don’t exercise their right to spend their earnings as they like." The sentence is incorrect due to the use of parentheses around "daughter." Parentheses are typically used for additional, optional, or explanatory information, and they don’t suit the structure of the sentence in this context.

Wrong sisters (daughter)

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Step

Complete sentence - Nowadays, families do not mind sisters, daughters, and wives seeking gainful employment as long as they don’t exercise their right to spend their earnings as they like.

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Answer

Option

C

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Sumup

Please summarize choices