Question : Improve the underlined part of the sentence. Choose 'No improvement' as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct.
Though a foreigner, Mother Teresa settle in Calcutta and made it her home.
Option 1: settle over Calcutta as
Option 2: settling in Calcutta or
Option 3: No improvement
Option 4: settled in Calcutta and
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Correct Answer: settled in Calcutta and
Solution : The fourth option is correct.
The sentence is in the past tense, so the correct form of the verb should be used. "Settle" should be in the past tense to match the timeline of the action. The past tense of "settle" is "settled".
In this sentence, parallelism is achieved by keeping both verbs, "settle" and "made", in the past tense. In the original sentence, the verbs "settle" and "made" are not in the same form, which disrupts the parallelism.
Therefore, the correct sentence should be: "Though a foreigner, Mother Teresa settled in Calcutta and made it her home."
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