Question

Choose the response that could improve the sentence by substituting the italicized portion.

He is a man of conscience.

• A. man of conscious
• B. man of co-census
• C. man in conscience
• D. NO CHANGE

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

NO CHANGE

Option D is the correct answer because the italicized phrase is grammatically correct and none of the options would improve the given construction.

Option A is incorrect because 'conscious' is different from 'conscience'. The former means aware or awake and the latter refers to a sense of right and wrong.

Option B is incorrect because 'co-census' means a mutual official count or survey. It would make no logical sense if used in the given sentence.

Option C is incorrect because the use of the preposition 'in', in the phrase 'man in conscience' is grammatically incorrect.