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Difficulty: HardCollocations and Fixed Phrases

The university senate decided to ________ exception to the auditor's unannounced inspection of the departmental accounts. Which of the following options best completes the sentence to form an idiomatically correct expression?

  1. takeAnswer
  2. B
    make
  3. C
    raise
  4. D
    give

Answer

The correct option is 'take', completing the fixed phrase 'take exception to'.
The verb 'take' combines with 'exception to' to form the recognized English fixed expression 'take exception to', which means to object strongly to or express offense at something.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the sentence context to determine the required meaning.
The sentence describes an action of expressing formal disapproval or objection toward an unannounced inspection.
Establishing contextual meaning helps determine which idiomatic collocation is required.
2
Match the noun 'exception' and preposition 'to' with its standard collocating verb.
The established fixed idiom meaning to object to or take offense at something is 'take exception to'.
Fixed phrases in Standard English require exact verb-noun combinations that cannot be substituted with semantic near-synonyms.

Key Concept

Fixed Verb-Noun Expressions ('take exception to')
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Collocations and Fixed Phrases

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