Multiple choice

Directions: Which of the phrases (1), (2), (3) and (4) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentence to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct? If the sentence is correct as it is and ‘No correction is required’, mark (5) as the answer.

Scientists are still a long way of a cure for AIDS.

  1. Scientists are still a long way from a cure for AIDS.

  2. Scientists still are a long way of a cure for AIDS.

  3. Still scientists are a long way to a cure for AIDS.

  4. Scientists are still a long way off a cure for AIDS.

  5. No change required
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Corrects the idiomatic use of ‘a long way of’. "Long way off" means to be far from, i.e. Scientists are still a long way off (far from discovering) a cure for AIDS.

 

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