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Test:ACT English
Adapted fromA Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens (1843)
The ghost on hearing this set up another cryand clanked its chain sohideouslyin the dead silence of the night that the policehas been justifiedin indicting it for a nuisance.
"Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know that ages of incessant labor, by immortalcreatures, for, this earthmust pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed! Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness! Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunities misused!Yet such was I. Oh, such was I."
"But you were always a good man ofbusiness, Jacob" faltered Scrooge, whonow began to apply this to himself.
"Business!" cried theGhost wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business;charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were, all, my business.The dealings of my trade werebuta drop of water in thecomprehensive positionof my business!"
| 1. | Which of the following is the best form for the bolded section? |
creatures, for this earth
NO CHANGE
creatures: for this earth
creatures for this earth
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