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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

Correct answer: year by year

  • 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.

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