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Indian news consumers’ trust in lower (1) TV news channels is much private (2) than their belief in newspapers and yet source (3) continues to be the dominant news television (4).
In the question below four words are given in bold. These four words are may not be in their correct position. The sentence is then followed by options with the correct combination of words that should replace each other in order to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct. Find the correct combination of the words that replace each other.

Options

Only 2 -3

1-2 and 3-4

1 -4 only

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Correct Answer :

Option B

1-2 and 3-4

Solution :

To determine the correct combination of words that need to replace each other, let us analyze the original sentence structure, context, and grammar:
Original Sentence: "Indian news consumers’ trust in lower (1) TV news channels is much private (2) than their belief in newspapers and yet source (3) continues to be the dominant news television (4)."

Let us examine the positions of the bolded and numbered words:
1. lower (1): Comparing TV news channels with newspapers, the word "lower" at (1) does not fit well before "TV news channels", and "private" at (2) does not fit in "much private than". If we swap 1 and 2, the phrase becomes "...trust in private (2) TV news channels is much lower (1) than...". This makes perfect grammatical and contextual sense, as "lower than" is a standard comparative structure, and "private TV news channels" is a meaningful noun phrase.
2. source (3) and television (4): In the second clause, "...and yet source (3) continues to be the dominant news television (4)", "source" is acting as a noun, but "dominant news television" is contextually awkward. If we swap 3 and 4, we get "...and yet television (4) continues to be the dominant news source (3)". This is contextually correct because television is described as a news source.

By applying these swaps (1 with 2, and 3 with 4), the fully corrected sentence becomes:
"Indian news consumers’ trust in private TV news channels is much lower than their belief in newspapers and yet television continues to be the dominant news source."

Therefore, the words at positions 1 and 2 must replace each other, and the words at positions 3 and 4 must replace each other. This corresponds to the option "1-2 and 3-4".