Question
Construe
I. I construed his statement as a refusal.
II. A police motorcycle chased his car twelve miles, and construed him near Rome.
III. It is for the courts alone to construe such legislation.
Directions : In each of the following questions, a word has been used in sentences in THREE different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentences in which the usage of the word is CORRECT or APPROPRIATE.
Solution
The word ‘construe’ means ‘to understand the meaning of something in a particular way’. In I and III, it is used correctly, but in II, the usage is incorrect.
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