Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentence has an underlined part. Below the sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them is better than the underlined part, indicate it as your response. Otherwise, mark your answer as (4).

He was not feeling well and as we climbed up the Rohtang pass, he became progressively worse for his eyes became bloodshot.

  1. because

  2. and

  3. since

  4. No improvement required

  5. .
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B Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct answer as the conjunction 'and' is used to connect words of the same part of speech, clauses or sentences that are to be taken jointly. This is correct in this context as the two clauses can be used as separate sentences but are joined to give additional information about the subject.

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