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Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
The naughty boy made (many a mischief).

  1. A
    much mischief
  2. B
    many mischief
  3. C
    many a mischiefs
  4. D
    no improvement

Solution & Step-by-step Explanation

The word mischief is an uncountable noun and cannot be used with countable determiners like "many" or "many a" in standard English.
To express a large amount of an uncountable noun, we use much.

Therefore, "many a mischief" should be replaced with much mischief.

Hence, option A is the correct improvement.

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Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
The naughty boy made (many a mischief).
A
much mischief
B
many mischief
C
many a mischiefs
D
no improvement

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