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Question

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

In Mesopotamia, the brewer's craft was ( the only ) profession which derived social sanction and divine protection from female deities.

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SSC CGL 2017 (Tier 1) Previous Year Paper (16-Aug-2017) (Shift 1)
The correct answer is

No improvement

When "only" modifies a singular countable noun to denote uniqueness, it requires the definite article "the". "Only profession" lacks an article; "a only"/"an only" are not used to express uniqueness.

The original phrase "the only" is already correct, so the answer is No improvement.

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