In each of the following sentences, part or the entire sentence is underlined. The answer-choices offer four ways of phrasing the underlined part. If you think the original sentence is better than the alternatives, choose 1 which merely repeats the underlined part; otherwise choose one of the alternatives.
Due to the chemical spill, the commute into the city will be delayed by as much as 2 hours.
The form of a verb changes depending on whether it refers to an event taking place in the past, present, or future. Since the tense of the statement is future and that of option B is present continuous, option B can be ruled out. In a similar fashion, since the tense of option C is present perfect, option C can also be eliminated.
As the original sentence is better than the alternatives, the correct option is A.
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