In each of the questions given below a sentence is given with three words in bold. Choose the option which gives the correct sequence of these words to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.
Down a narrow street attention (A) the seawall, another fisherman draws hugging (B) to his house, whose roof has been tightly protect (C) in blue tarpaulin to wrapped (D) it from the waves.
Correct Answer :
A-B and C-D
Solution :
The correct answer is A-B and C-D.
Let us analyze the given sentence and correct the arrangement of words to make it grammatically and contextually correct:
Original Sentence:
"Down a narrow street attention (A) the seawall, another fisherman draws hugging (B) to his house, whose roof has been tightly protect (C) in blue tarpaulin to wrapped (D) it from the waves."
Step 1: Analyzing words (A) and (B):
- Position (A) comes after "street" and describes the action/position relative to "the seawall". The participle "hugging" fits contextually here ("hugging the seawall" means following closely alongside it).
- Position (B) follows "fisherman draws". The noun "attention" correctly completes the phrase "draws attention to his house".
- Therefore, swapping word (A) attention with word (B) hugging (A-B) corrects the first half of the sentence.
Step 2: Analyzing words (C) and (D):
- Position (C) follows "has been tightly". The past participle "wrapped" fits after "has been tightly" to form the passive verb phrase ("wrapped in blue tarpaulin").
- Position (D) follows the infinitive marker "to". The base verb form "protect" is required after "to" to form an infinitive structure ("to protect it from the waves").
- Therefore, swapping word (C) protect with word (D) wrapped (C-D) corrects the second half of the sentence.
Corrected Sentence:
"Down a narrow street hugging the seawall, another fisherman draws attention to his house, whose roof has been tightly wrapped in blue tarpaulin to protect it from the waves."
Thus, the correct pair of interchanges is A-B and C-D.
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