In the question below, few words are given in bold which may not be placed in the correctly. Choose the correct interchange needed between these words to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.
Effective communication (A) and a clear achieving (B) promote teamwork toward understanding (C) shared goals and ensure progress (D).
Correct Answer :
B-C
Solution :
The correct option is B-C.
Let's analyze the given sentence and understand the context and grammar to find the correct interchange:
"Effective communication (A) and a clear achieving (B) promote teamwork toward understanding (C) shared goals and ensure progress (D)."
1. Analyze the grammatically incorrect parts:
- In phrase (B), "a clear achieving" uses the gerund/participle "achieving" after the adjective "clear" and the article "a". While "achieving" can sometimes act as a noun (gerund), "clear understanding" is a far more standard and contextually appropriate phrase in this position. Let's see if swapping it makes sense.
- In phrase (C), "teamwork toward understanding shared goals" is grammatically possible, but "teamwork toward achieving shared goals" makes much stronger contextual sense, as "achieving" collocates perfectly with "goals".
2. Test the interchange between B and C:
- If we swap achieving (B) and understanding (C), the sentence becomes:
"Effective communication (A) and a clear understanding (C) promote teamwork toward achieving (B) shared goals and ensure progress (D)."
3. Verify the meaning and grammar of the corrected sentence:
- "a clear understanding" is grammatically perfect and contextually meaningful, describing the comprehension of the team's objectives.
- "achieving shared goals" is the standard idiomatic expression for successfully reaching objectives.
- The rest of the words, "communication (A)" and "progress (D)", are already correctly placed and do not need to be changed.
Therefore, interchanging B and C makes the sentence grammatically correct and contextually coherent.
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