XAT Question

Started 8 months ago by Jenil Trivedi in XAT, XAT Verbal and Logical Ability, Miscellaneous

Which of the following sentences are grammatically correct? 1. Blue Skinned Gods is an immersive and satisfying coming-of-age nov...

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Which of the following sentences are grammatically correct?

1. Blue Skinned Gods is an immersive and satisfying coming-of-age novel with an extraordinary central character: a young Indian boy named Kalki, who has blue skin after being bitten by a snake.

2. His conniving father concocts a story that Kalki is the reincarnation of the blue-skinned Hindu god Vishnu and installs his son as a healer in an ashram in Tamil Nadu to exploit the desperate of the poor, setting himself up to become famous, wealthy, and powerful.

3. Young Kalki believes his own mythology, trying to help the people who come to him, but of course, he isn’t a god and can’t maintain the illusion.

4. When reality bites, disillusionment and betrayal set in. Kalki goes to America to build a new life, restore his faith in people and rebuild his sense of identity.

5. Meanwhile, the idyllic ashram of his childhood, whereas becomes “a spiritual retreat for white foreigners wanting to find themselves.”

6. Newly divorced women and men in their midlife’s crises, young people taking gap years to travel the world and do yoga – they all wanted a backdrop of exoticism colour for their social media posts.

 

a 2,3,5

 

b 1,2,6

 

c 3,4,5

 

d 1,3,4

 

e 1,4,6

 

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  • Replied 8 months ago

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    Option D is the correct answer. Sentence 2 is incorrect as the father attempted to exploit the desperation of the poor, and was setting his son up to become famous, wealthy, and powerful – an error of parallel construction. Sentence 5 is incorrect as the conjunction “whereas” is superfluous. Sentence 6 is incorrect as it should have used midlife crises, and “backdrop of exoticism and colour”.