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 the best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose any one of the others.

The duty of virtue is essentially distinguished from the duty of justice in that we are morally bound to the later, whereas the former rests on free self-restraint only.

  1. the duty of justice in that we are morally bound to the later

  2. the duty of justice in that we are morally bound to the latter

  3. the duty of justice in which we are morally bound to the later

  4. the duty of justice in which we are morally bounded to the later

  5. the duty of justice in that we are morally bounded to the latter
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Explanation

Explanation for (1): The sentence bears the error of diction: ‘later’ refers to time, whereas ‘latter’ refer to position. The sentence is about ‘the duty of justice’, that comes later in the sentence.

Explanation for (2): The sentence bears the error of diction: ‘later’ refers to time, whereas ‘latter’ refer to position. The sentence is about ‘the duty of justice’, which comes later in the sentence. This option corrects the error.

Explanation for (3): This option does not rectify the error of diction and introduces another error (‘which’ in place of ‘that’). 
Explanation for (4): This option does not rectify the error of diction and introduces other errors (‘which’ in place of ‘that’ and ‘’bounded’ in place of ‘bound’).  Explanation for (5): This option rectifies the error of diction but introduces another error (‘that’ in place of ‘which’ and ‘bounded’ in place of ‘bound).

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