Question
The ACB claimed that town planning officials
(A)/concerned had sanctioned a building plan to (B)/ construct multi storeyed apartments for (C)/lake beds and buffer zone, and also approves the (D)/land records submitted to it illegally (E). Directions: In each of the questions, a sentence is divided into five parts namely A, B, C, D and E. In which one of the parts is given in bold and is grammatically and contextually correct. You have to identify which fragment, apart from the bold one, is correct in terms of grammar and usage. If all the parts are correct, then mark option 5, “All are correct” as the answer.Solution
C- apartments are constructed ‘on’ lake beds, not ‘for’ lake beds. D- here, ‘approved’ is correct, because in the correct part, ie, A, the past tense is used. E- the preposition ‘it’ should be changed to ‘them’, because land records were submitted to the officials. The ACB claimed that town planning officials concerned had sanctioned a building plan to construct multi storeyed apartments on lake beds and buffer zone, and also approved the land records submitted to them illegally.
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