CAT 1997 — VARC Question 16
Single BlankEasy
Direction: In each of the following questions, a part of a sentence has been left blank. Select from among the four options given below each question, the one which would best fill in the blank.
In India the talent is prodigious, and it increases ___.
Answer & solution
- A
each year
year by year
- C
annually
- D
progressively
Solution
Year by year' is the correct idiomatic usage here. ‘annually’ and ‘progressively’ are not the right words to use as we are just making a general observation, not dealing with statistics. The singular stress on ‘each’ is unwarranted in this sentence.