Question : Select the most appropriate option to improve the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to improve it, select ‘no improvement required’.
Mr. Fogg thought that it is possible to a man to go round the world in eighty days.
Option 1: no improvement required
Option 2: it was possible to the man
Option 3: it is possible to a man
Option 4: it was possible for a man
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Correct Answer: it was possible for a man
Solution : The fourth option is correct.
- In the given sentence, thought is mentioned, and as it is the past form of think , we should use the be verb in the past form. Hence, was should be used instead of is .
- To or for both can be used for a motive or reason, but to is always used with a verb, and for is always used with a noun.
- So, for should be used in the following sentence as a preposition, followed by a noun (a man.)
Therefore, the correct sentence would be: Mr. Fogg thought that it was possible for a man to go round the world in eighty days.
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