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In the following questions, four words in the sentence have been highlighted and numbered. These words may be incorrectly placed. You have to identify the pair of words that need to be interchanged to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct. If no interchange is required, choose No interchange. The government sought to accelerate fiscal uncertainty (

Q: Answer-In the following questions, four words in the sentence have been highlighted and numbered. These wor...

The phrase accelerate fiscal uncertainty is illogical because governments aim to accelerate fiscal consolidation, not uncertainty. Similarly, the phrase amid global consolidation is contextually incorrect because consolidation is a fiscal process, whereas the global backdrop is typically one of uncertainty. Therefore, uncertainty A and consolidation D must be interchanged. Next, the phrase cautiously sustain welfare measures is grammatically acceptable, but the phrase to expanding economic momentum is incorrect because to must be followed by a base verb, not a present participle. Contextually and grammatically, sustain economic momentum and expand welfare measures are the correct collocations. Hence, sustain B and expanding C must also be interchanged. After both swaps, the correct sentence reads The government sought to accelerate fiscal consolidation while cautiously expanding welfare measures to sustain economic momentum amid global uncertainty.