Question
1. The U.S. Congress has ratified a gun regulation bill
to source arms into the country for the first time. 2. The procurement of firearms was banned in the country with the passing of the gun regulation bill by the U.S. Congress for the first time. 3. For the first time, the U.S. Congress has passed a gun regulation bill to place several important constraints on the proliferation of firearms across the country. 4. In a first, a gun regulation bill was passed by the U.S. Congress to control the increasing number of weapons in the country. 5. To take a rain check on the soaring number of weapons in the country, the U.S. Congress, for the first time, passed a gun regulation bill. In each of the following questions, five statements have been given. Identify the pair of statements which are grammatically correct and also carry the same meaning.Solution
1- In no other sentence, sourcing of weapons is mentioned. 2- no other sentence mentions the ban on weapon procurement. 5- the idiom ‘take a rain check’ makes the sentence incorrect. The idiom is used to tell someone that you cannot accept an invitation now, but would like to do so at a later time. 3 and 4 are grammatically correct and have similar meaning.
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