Some boys speak their mother tongue among one another ........

English Language (Defence) Sentence Improvement

SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT

Directions: Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter (a), (b) or (c). If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet. Thus a "No improvement" response will be signified by the letter (d).

Some boys speak their mother-tongue among one another.

between them

among themselves

with them

No Improvement

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Explanation:

In the given sentence, ‘among one another’ must be replaced with ‘among themselves’ as the sentence talks about the boys who speak their mother-tongue and hence the pronoun should be ‘plural’ too. Thus, option (2) is correct.