IIFT 2010 Question Paper

Instructions

Each sentence has a part which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find four ways of phrasing the underlined part. Follow the requirements of the standard written English to choose your answer. Selection should make the sentence clear, exact and free of grammatical error. It should minimize awkwardness, ambiguity and redundancy.

Question 88

The economic growth increased from 7 to 9 per cent in November 2010, supporting the expectations that industrial growth rate in October-December quarter more than doubled that of the 4 per cent growth rate in industrial growth for the previous quarter.

Solution

Option A can be ruled out because of the wrong usage of the expression "doubled that of". Options B and C can be ruled out because a line beginning after 'supporting the expectations' should start with 'that'.

Since option D is the aptest substitution for the underlined phrase,

The correct option is D.


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