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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.
Scientists are still a long way of a cure for AIDS.
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Scientists are still a long way off a cure for AIDS.
💡 Explanation:
Corrects the idiomatic use of ‘a long way of’. "Long way off" means to be far from, i.e. Scientists are still a long way off (far from discovering) a cure for AIDS.