Question
this week since February 2018 / companies adding 18 oil
rigs this week / U.S. energy firms added the most oil rigs / producers have been reducing spending on new drilling. Below sections of sentence are provided with five options. All the four options are the ways to combine the sections of sentence and frame it into one single sentence. You need to find out the best option which is contextually and grammatically correct and if none of the given sentence is correct mark ‘none of these’ as your answer.Solution
(a) is incorrect because the word “although” already indicates a contrast and the word “however” is not required after that. (b) is incorrect because – it wrongly indicates that the reason for Producers reducing spending on new drilling is that companies added 18 oil rigs this week. (d) is incorrect because – “this week” is redundant. “This week since February 2018, companies added 18 oil rigs this week..” Option (c) conveys the meaning without any ambiguity or redundancy.
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