Question

The first train took twenty-six minutes to complete the route, which ran from City Hall to West 145th Street in under a half an hour. NO CHANGE in the completion of its route. in twenty-six minutes. DELETE the underlined portion and end the sentence with a period

Answer 1

Answer:

The train, which ran from the City Hall to West 145th Street within half an hour, took twenty-six minutes to complete the route.

◆EXPLANATION —

There were two errors in the sentence.

within half an hour should be used in place of in under a half an hour.

Error of Proximity ~

Here, Relative Pronoun which refers to the train, not the route.

This is understood from the use of ran…in half an hour.

Therefore, which should be placed immediately after or near or proximal to the Antecedent (train) to which the Relative Pronoun refers.

Answer 2

Answer:

DELETE the underlined portion and end the sentence with a period.

is the right option

Explanation:

You first have to realize that 26 minutes is the same thing as "under a than half hour." Once you see this, you know that the question is testing editing out repetition.

The original (answer A) doesn’t work, since it’s repeating the route length already described in the beginning of the sentence. Answer C has the same problem – it’s repeating the route time exactly as already expressed. Answer B takes one type of redundancy and replaces it with another, since it’s just a variant of the words “to complete the route” already in the sentence.

So, the only answer that fixes all the redundancies is D.