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.

Had the party dispensed of the contentious issues, it would have got the majority at its own.

  1. Had the party dispensed off the contentious issues

  2. If the party had dispensed of the contentious issues

  3. If the party would have dispensed of the contentious issues

  4. Had the party dispensed with the contentious issues

  5. No correction required
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D Correct answer
Explanation

‘To dispense with’ means ‘to get rid off’ or 'do away with'. The word 'dispense' takes the preposition 'with'.

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