Multiple choice

Directions: Out of the answer options given below, select the sentences that make coherent sense grammatically as well as thematically.

(A) Choose only such friends that you can trust. (B) The prevailing custom among farmers of keeping their clocks fast and to which attention was called is attracting good humoured banter. (C) Many a man could accomplish the task and indeed have accomplished it. (D) Everybody has forgotten the prophecies; they usually do so very soon.

  1. Both C & D

  2. Both A & B

  3. Both B & C

  4. None of these

  5. Both A & D
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D Correct answer
Explanation

A is rendered incorrect by the use of 'that' in place of 'as'. In statement B, 'attracting' should be replaced with 'arousing'. Singular 'has' should follow 'many a man' in C. 'They usually do so' should be replaced with 'people usually forget'.

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