Multiple choice

Directions: In the given question, select the option that expresses the central idea in the most clear,x concise and correct manner.

  1. The Police Department was not only responsible for the maintenance of order but also for rebuilding the bonds among the various ethnic groups.

  2. The Police Department was responsible not only for maintaining order but also for rebuilding the bonds among the various ethnic groups.

  3. The Police Department was responsible not only for the maintenance of order and also for rebuilding among the various ethnic groups.

  4. The Police Department was responsible not only for the maintenance of order and also for the rebuilding of bonds among the various ethnic groups.
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B Correct answer
Explanation

(1) and (5) suffer from faulty parallelism. When two or more phrases/clauses branch off from the same word, that word should come first and they should be in parallel structure (“responsible not only for… but also for…”). (3) and (4) have the right word order but a wrong word - the idiom is “not only.. but also”, and (3) changes the meaning. Furthermore, (1), (3) and (4) are wordy, using “the maintenance of order” when “maintaining order” will do. Answer: (2)

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