In the highly competitive landscape of SSC exams, where every mark counts, mastering the skill of sentence improvement can significantly enhance your chances of success. Clear, concise, and grammatically correct sentences are not only essential for acing the English section
As we know that English has become a worldwide language. Apart from this, English is required to crack the Bank exam, UPSC exam, SSC exam, etc., even if it is a CBT-written examination or interview. Therefore, English language/General English is added as a subject/section in the Government exam.
In Sentence Improvement questions, a sentence is given with a word or phrase in italics, underlined or in bold letters, in which the candidate has to choose the correct option after finding the error. However, these questions can be attempted only if a student has knowledge about vocabulary, article, verb, tenses, correct usage of sentences and phrases...
Sentence Improvement topic is an important part of SSC, Bank, and RBI Examination. In sentence improvement questions, a sentence is given or underlined with a word or phrase in bold letters. The candidate has to find an error in the part that is bold or underlined. Then the correct answer has to be found from the options. Here in this article today, I am...
The word "consign" means put someone or something in (a place) in order to be rid of it or them and "assign" means designate or set (something) aside for a specific purpose.
Therefore, "consign" can be replaced with "assign" in the sentence, without changing its meaning.
If we go through the given statement, it is not correct since it does not make any sense.
Though it may seem that with some changes, the sentence would imply something.
Here, we have to understand the context of the statement which is talking about the action to be taken by the Union Minister against others.
Now, coming to the options, Option 1 can be ruled out since it is clear that with this option being implemented, the resultant statement would not make any sense whatsoever.
With Option 2 also, the same may be said since it also does not make any sense.
Option 3 can be ruled out since it does imply anything.
Option 4 is the right pick since if we interchange the words according to this option, the resultant statement will make sense. 'Threatened' should be used along with the term 'legal action', and with further part of the sentence 'two newspapers' fitting in well.
Correct sentence: Union minister M.J. Akbar threatened to take legal action against several women journalists who had accused him of sexual harassment at two newspapers where he had been the editor.
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