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Sentence improvement — choose the precise adjective for timekeeping: prefer 'accurate' rather than 'correct/right/regular' for clocks: 'Our office clock is not as accurate as it should be …'

Difficulty: Easy

right
regular
accurate
No improvement

Correct Answer: accurate

Explanation:

Given sentence
Our office clock is not so correct as it should be; it is usually five minutes fast.

Concept/Approach
For instruments, the natural adjective is accurate, meaning 'showing the correct time'.

Correction
'not so correct as' → more idiomatic as 'not as accurate as …'

Why others are suboptimal
'right' → informal and less precise.'regular' → refers to interval/consistency, not exactness.'No improvement' → retains weaker diction.

Final Answer
accurate

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