Multiple choice

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

There are two categories of consumers - those who purchase counterfeit goods knowing that they are not genuine, while there are consumers who are unaware that they are purchasing fake products.

  1. There are two categories of consumers - those who purchase counterfeit goods knowing that they are not genuine, while there are consumers who

  2. There are two categories of consumers - those who purchase counterfeit goods knowing that they are not genuine, and those who

  3. There are two categories of consumers - those who purchase counterfeit goods knowing that they are not genuine, and consumers who

  4. There are two categories of consumers - those who purchase counterfeit goods knowing that they are not genuine, and there are others who

  5. There are two categories of consumers - who purchase counterfeit goods knowing that they are not genuine, and who

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B Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence suffers from faulty construction. The first type are 'those who'; the second type are 'while there are consumers who'. This option removes the ambiguous construction by using 'those who' and 'those who'.