Idiom and collocation: Decide whether a change is required. Original sentence: "The people generally try to curry favour with the corrupt but influential person." Choose the best option.

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Idiom and collocation: Decide whether a change is required.  Original sentence: "The people generally try to curry favour with the corrupt but influential person."  Choose the best option.

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Concept/Approach Curry favour with is a correct and widely used idiom meaning "to try to gain someone's favour by flattery". Option analysis E is correct. A is meaningless; B changes the idiom (not wrong in isolation but the original is already idio…

Idiom and collocation: Decide whether a change is required. Original sentence: "The people generally try to curry favour with the corrupt but influential person." Choose the best option.

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