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Which section of the following passage needs to be edited for incorrect spelling, incorrect grammar, inappropriate word choice or wordiness?
  1. The popularity of
  2. zombie movies, in which dead people
  3. raise from their graves,
  4. has surged in recent years.
Explanation
Answer:C - Corrected version: rise from their graves,

Raise should be changed to rise. The two verbs have nearly the same meaning, but raise is transitive; it requires an object. In the above sentence there is no object; the dead are raising themselves, so they are rising.
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