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.

The Government's decision to waive of Customs Duty for machineries for Export Oriented Units is an acknowledgement of both present liberal policies as well as an endeavor to address genuine concerns of the EOUs.

  1. decision to waive of Customs Duty for machineries for Export Oriented Units is an acknowledgement of both present liberal policies as well as an endeavor

  2. decision to waive Customs Duty on machinery for Export Oriented Units is both an acknowledgement of present liberal policies and an endeavor

  3. decision to waive off Customs Duty on machinery for Export Oriented Units both acknowledges present liberal policies as well as an endeavor

  4. decision to waive Customs Duty for machineries for Export Oriented Units is both an acknowledgement of present liberal policies and also an endeavor

  5. decision to waive off Customs Duty for machineries for Export Oriented Units, not only acknowledges present liberal policies but also endeavors

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Correct; removes the redundant 'of', the repetitive 'for', the error placing 'acknowledgement' before 'both' and the incorrect use of 'both' and 'as well as' together.