Multiple choice

Geniuses are marked not so much by their intelligence but instead by the fact that this intelligence reaches its full productive potential at the right moment.

  1. but instead

  2. rather than

  3. than

  4. as

  5. so much as
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The correct usage is ‘Not so much X...as Y...’. But ‘Not X but rather Y’ is also a grammatically correct construct. Hence (4).

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