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In the following sentence, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath the sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four.

His mother made great sacrifices to educate him, moving house on three occasions, and severing the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lessons to make him understand the need to persevere.

  1. severing the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lessons to make him understand the need to persevere.
  2. severed the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lessons to make him understand the need to persevere.
  3. severed the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lessons to make him understand the need for persevering.
  4. severing the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lessons to make them understand the need to persevere.

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