Multiple choice

Which of the following is the best revision of the underlined portion of sentence no. (4) below? If he is addicted to the fine arts or to pure science instead of to trade and finance, let him be poor.

  1. If he is addicted to the fine arts or to pure science instead of to trade and finance

  2. If he is addicted to the fine arts or to the pure science instead of to trade and finance

  3. If he is addicted of the fine arts or of pure science instead of trade and finance

  4. If he is addicted to fine arts or to pure science rather than to trade and finance
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D Correct answer
Explanation

(D) correctly replaces 'instead of' by 'rather than', and deletes the redundant 'the' before 'fine arts' to make the construction parallel.

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