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      Question

      In a maneuver never before attempted, (1)/  the

      232-foot-tall Super Heavy booster (2)/  executed a series of precise (3)/ burns to aligned itself with the launch tower.(4) No error (5) A sentence has been divided into four parts, one of which may contain an error. Identify that fragment and mark it as your answer. Mark (5) if the sentence contains no error.
      A 4 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
      B 1 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
      C 2 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
      D 3 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
      E No error Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

      Solution

      The error is in fragment (3): "burns to aligned itself with the launch tower." The verb "aligned" should be in the base form "align" to correctly follow "to." The correct phrase should read "burns to align itself with the launch tower." Therefore, the corrected sentence would be: "In a maneuver never before attempted, the 232-foot-tall Super Heavy booster executed a series of precise burns to align itself with the launch tower."

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