Grammar Usage NMAT 2023

In the questions given below few sentences are given which are grammatically correct and meaningful. Connect them by the word given above the statements in the best possible way without changing the intended meaning. Choose your answer accordingly from the options to form a correct, coherent sentence.

Q1. ALTHOUGH
(A) The lack of hot air balloons at last weekend’s Stillwater Balloon Festival left many people feeling deflated.
(B) The organizer is already looking at ways to improve the event and bring it back next year
(C) The report says tracking digital use, purchases and sales is increasingly important
(D) The festival was promoted with having five hot air balloons with two offering tethered rides both days
(a) Only C-D
(b) Both A-D and B-C
(c) Only B-C
(d) Only A-B
(e) None of these

Q2. ASSUMING THAT
(A) The existing power-purchase agreements (PPAs) for thermal plants do not allow any increase in fuel costs
(B) The private developers had quoted fixed fuel costs for the supply of electricity under long-term contracts
(C) The coal price would remain unchanged in the long-term.
(D) If the panel’s recommendations are also accepted by states procuring electricity from these plants, consumers could end up picking up the tab.
(a) Only C-D
(b) Both A-C and B-C
(c) Only B-C
(d) Only A-B
(e) None of these

Q3. SO THAT
(A) The letter says that the costs associated with conducting field trials under the regulations for GM organisms are extremely restrictive to research institutes and small biotech companies.
(B) On 24 October, 170 European scientists from 75 research centres in more than a dozen countries released a position paper urging that the law should change in the short term.
(C) Legal experts say that there is no mechanism to appeal the European court’s ruling.
(D) Crops with small DNA adaptations made through gene editing would follow the regulations for varieties produced through conventional methods.
(a) Only B-D
(b) Both A-C and B-C
(c) Only B-C
(d) Only A-B
(e) None of these

S1. Ans. (d)
Sol. Statements (A) and (B) can together form a grammatically correct and coherent sentence without altering the context of the sentence using the connector “although” which means in spite of the fact that; even though. Therefore, the sentence thus formed is “Although the lack of hot air balloons at last weekend’s Stillwater Balloon Festival left many people feeling deflated, the organizer is already looking at ways to improve the event and bring it back next year”. Hence, option (d) is the most suitable answer choice.

S2. Ans. (b)
Sol. Combinations (A)-(C) and (B)-(C) can successfully frame grammatically correct and contextually meaningful sentence using the connector “assuming that” which means accepting something as true; if. Therefore, the sentences thus formed using the combinations A-C and B-C respectively are:
“The existing power-purchase agreements (PPAs) for thermal plants do not allow any increase in fuel costs assuming that the coal price would remain unchanged in the long-term.”
“The private developers had quoted fixed fuel costs for the supply of electricity under long-term contracts, assuming that the coal price would remain unchanged.”

S3. Ans. (a)
Sol. Statements (B) and (D) can together form a grammatically correct and coherent sentence without altering the context of the sentence using the connector “so that”. “So that” is used as a subordinate clause to show purpose or to give an explanation. It is used to show an action producing an intended result or a cause producing an effect. Therefore, the sentence thus formed is “On 24 October, 170 European scientists from 75 research centres in more than a dozen countries released a position paper urging that the law should change in the short term so that crops with small DNA adaptations made through gene editing would follow the regulations for varieties produced through conventional methods”. Hence, option (a) is the most suitable answer choice.