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Choose the option that best corrects the underlined word.
One of Jake's colleagues prefer to work during the afternoon and evening shifts.

  1. prefers to work
  2. has a preference to work
  3. NO CHANGE
  4. wish to work

A
NO CHANGE
B
prefers to work
C
has a preference to work
D
wish to work
Solution
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The grammatical subject number determines the number of the verb.
The subject in this sentence is singular since we used the word 'one'. Options B and C have singular verbs, but option C is unecessarily wordy. Hence the right option is B.

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