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Question 28: The President has, in particular, taken umbrage with critics of the party who live of the partyโs largess.
โTo take umbrage atโ something is to be offended or displeased by it. Note that the correct idiomatic expression uses โatโ.
โTo live offโ an entity is to depend on it for survival. The preposition โofโ is incorrectly used in the given sentence.
The question is " Choose the grammatically correct option "
Choice D is the correct answer.
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