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Multiple Choice Questions

He needs not mention in the office that only the three first lucky winners will ...........

English (DRDO) (Phase-II) Sentence Improvement

Direction: In each of the questions below, a sentence is given with one or more portions marked in boldface. Choose the best replacement (if needed) for the portions in bold to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.

He needs not mention in the office that only the three first lucky winners will win a trip to Europe.

Need not mention, first three lucky winners

Need not mention, three lucky winners

Needs not mention, first lucky winners

Need not mentions, first three lucky winner

Needs not have mentioned, first three lucky winners

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Explanation:

The given sentence explains that it is not required to mention in the office that only three winners will get a trip to Europe under the competition.

Now, if we look at the bold parts of the sentence, If need is followed by not, it turns into a modal auxiliary and you cannot use needs in that context. Hence, it is wrong to use needs not mention in the first part of the sentence. In the second part given in bold, it is observed that both the ordinal and cardinal numbers are in use i.e. both three and first are there. In such a scenario, the ordinal should always precede the cardinal number used. So, first three lucky winners would have been the correct usage.

The correct sentence would be: He need not mention in the office that only the first three lucky winners will win a trip to Europe.

This makes option A the correct choice among the given options.

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