Question
Directions: Find out the error according to the
grammar and context of the given sentence. If there is no error, mark option 5 as the answer, i.e. No error. (Ignore the punctuation errors, if any.) Jeff Bezos' suggestion in a recent NYT interview that the world's richest be listed not by the fortunes they have amassed, but the wealth they have created for others is an interesting take on the debate over rising inequality.Solution
The correlative conjunction “not....but” requires a parallel grammatical structure after “not” and “but.” Therefore, “not by…” has to be followed by “but by…” The corrected sentence is: Jeff Bezos' suggestion in a recent NYT interview that the world's richest be listed not by the fortunes they have amassed, but by the wealth they have created for others is an interesting take on the debate over rising inequality.
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