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Paragraph Improvement Practice Test 5 (Grammar)
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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.
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If he is addicted to fine arts or to pure science rather than to trade and finance
💡 Explanation:
(D) correctly replaces 'instead of' by 'rather than', and deletes the redundant 'the' before 'fine arts' to make the construction parallel.