Read the sentence from an argumentative essay on employment in the United States. Even today, many foreigners continue to emigra
te to the United States in hopes of finding new job opportunities. Which edit corrects the error in the sentence? emigrate should be immigrate
foreigners should be foreigners
United States should be U.S.
opportunities. should be opportunities!
As per the question, option A i.e. 'emigrate should be immigrate' displays the edit that most appropriately rectifies the error in the sentence. <u>The sentence contains an error of word-choice which proposes an inappropriate, confusing, and misleading meaning to it</u>. The word 'emigrate' implies 'to leave one's country or native place' which does not go with the context of the sentence. Thus, it needs to be replaced with 'immigrate' which means 'to move to a place for settling there' as per the given context cues. This rectification assists in conveying a complete and accomplished thought and hence, <u>option A</u> is the correct answer.
They are because they show us that equal societies were and are indeed a possible thing when we're talking about how to build up an equal society. This doesn't however mean that such a society can exist in a highly modern state of the 21st century.
