Multiple choice

Directions: The following question consist of a set of four statements. One or more of the statements may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the statement(s) having the error.

A. Those who stand up for utility as the test of right and wrong, use the term in that restricted and merely colloquial sense in which utility is opposed to pleasure. B. The same sorts of persons denounce utilitarianism "as impracticably dry when the word utility precedes the word pleasure, and as too practicably voluptuous when the word pleasure precedes the word utility." C. Utility is not something to be contradistinguished from pleasure, but pleasure itself, together with exemption from pain. D. Not only is the term ignorantly misapplied solely in disparagement, but occasionally in compliment; as though it implied superiority to frivolity and the mere pleasures of the moment.

  1. B and D

  2. A and C

  3. C and D

  4. D and A

  5. B and C

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A Correct answer
Explanation

B should use: The same 'sort' of persons. 'Not only' in D should be followed by 'but also'.