He was too conscientious in the discharge of his duties that he could not serve that exploiter for l...........

English Language (Defence) Sentence Improvement

Directions for the following 25 (twenty-five) items : 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).

He was too conscientious in the discharge of his duties that he could not serve that exploiter for long.

that he would not serve

for serving

to serve

No improvement

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Explanation:

The phrase ‘that he could not serve’ is grammatically correct. This is because other forms of verb doesn’t go with the blank and this form of verb is grammatically and contextually correct.
Thus, the correct formation would be, ‘He was too conscientious in the discharge of his duties to serve that exploiter for long’.