Few believed President Bashar al Assad would A survive the rebellion that swept his country seven B ...........

English Language (RRB-B) Adjective

Directions: The following sentence is divided into 4 parts. Among them, one or more parts may have a grammatical or contextual error. Kindly choose, from the given options, the set of parts that do not have an error and are grammatically and contextually correct.

Few believed President Bashar al-Assad would (A) / survive the rebellion that swept his country seven (B) / years ago and Syria’s blood-soaked dictator is (C) / on the brink of defeating those who tried to topple him. (D)

Only A

Only A and C

Only A, B and D

Other than the given options

All are correct.

Explanation:

Here, the statement has two fragments- one which talks of how no one expected Syria’s President to make it and the other talking about him on the verge of defeating the ones against him. Hence, these fragments are contradictory and the connector ‘and’ is incorrect and should be replaced by ‘but’. The rest of the fragments are correct.

Correct: Few believed President Bashar al-Assad would survive the rebellion that swept his country seven years ago but Syria’s blood-soaked dictator is on the brink of defeating those who tried to topple him.

Hence, option C is correct.