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Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence:

In order to earning decent living we need to have a good job with a lucrative salary.

The correct answer is

earn a decent living

The phrase follows 'In order to', which must be followed by the base form of the verb, not the '-ing' form.

The common collocation is 'earn a decent living', meaning to make enough money to support oneself, and it needs the article 'a'.

So 'earning decent living' is corrected to the infinitive phrase 'earn a decent living'.

Option A 'earn life of decency' is unidiomatic, option B changes the noun to 'life', and option D uses the wrong past form 'earned'.

The correct replacement is earn a decent living.

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