Improving Sentences
Part of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underline material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A.
Read the sentence first to find any errors and predict a correction. Then check for differences among the answer choices to further narrow down your selection to only the correct answer.
Though its early history is not fully known, origami, the art of folding objects out of paper without cutting, pasting, or decorating, seems that it had developed from the older art of folding cloth.
In this sentence, the verb sounds strange--why use "had developed" when there is nothing in the sentence more recent than its subject, origami? Look for an answer choice that has "developed" instead of "had developed."
