Which sentence contains an error in word usage?

A) The preacher said that it is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

B) The extremely resourceful thief eluded all seventeen of the covert agents that were chasing him.

C) When asked where the documents were, the slimy governor alluded vaguely to "mistakes being made."

D) One aspect of T. S. Eliot's poetry that makes it so difficult is his usage of many literary elusions.

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Anne Downs

9 November, 18:11

Which sentence contains an error in word usage?

A) The preacher said that it is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

B) The extremely resourceful thief eluded all seventeen of the covert agents that were chasing him.

C) When asked where the documents were, the slimy governor alluded vaguely to "mistakes being made."

D) One aspect of T. S. Eliot's poetry that makes it so difficult is his usage of many literary elusions.

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Alanna Erickson · Answer 1

the answer is A. there should be quotations around the preacher's comment.

Evangeline · Answer 2

I believe the sentence that contains an error in word usage is: D) One aspect of T. S. Eliot's poetry that makes it so difficult is his usage of many literary elusions.

Elusion means to escape, to evade something; while allusion is defined as an expression to call something without mention it explicitly, and is often used as a literary resource, giving sentence D much more sense.