1. For a successful career as 2. a beautician, one 3. must be prepared to…

2023

1. For a successful career as

2. a beautician, one

3. must be prepared to dissemble:

4. you must not tell your client the unvarnished truth about his or her appearance.

5. no error

  1. A.

    1

  2. B.

    2

  3. C.

    3

  4. D.

    4

  5. E.

    5

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Correct answer: D

In error-spotting items built around the pronoun ‘one’, the governing rule is that once a sentence establishes ‘one’ as its subject for a general statement, every later reference to that same subject must keep using ‘one’ (or its possessive ‘one’s’) — it must not switch to the second-person ‘you’. When such a switch happens, the correction targets the LATER pronoun that broke consistency, bringing it back in line with the pronoun the sentence already established, not the other way round.

This sentence first establishes the subject with the impersonal pronoun ‘one’ — ‘a beautician, one must be prepared to dissemble’. The next clause then switches to the second-person ‘you’ and its possessive ‘your’ — ‘you must not tell your client the unvarnished truth about his or her appearance’. Since ‘one’ was already established, this later clause is the one that breaks consistency, and it should read ‘one must not tell one’s client the unvarnished truth about his or her appearance’ instead.

Reading the corrected sentence back — ‘For a successful career as a beautician, one must be prepared to dissemble: one must not tell one’s client the unvarnished truth about his or her appearance’ — confirms the pronoun stays as ‘one’/‘one’s’ from start to end, while the opening phrase and the infinitive ‘to dissemble’ were already sound and need no change.

Why the other parts don't need correction:

  • For a successful career as — a complete, correctly formed prepositional opening; nothing to correct here.

  • a beautician, one — correctly introduces the impersonal ‘one’ as the subject of the general statement; no fault in choosing this form here.

  • must be prepared to dissemble: — the infinitive ‘prepared to dissemble’ is correctly formed and the colon properly introduces what follows.

  • no error — this only applies if every clause referred to the subject the same way throughout; here one clause doesn't, so this can't be the answer.

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