English | Sentence Improvement

Question of The Day05-05-2020

Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’.

All her colleagues admired her so much, no one contradicted against her gibberish statements.

Answer

Correct Answer : b ) no one contradicted

Explanation :

Use of ‘against’ with contradict is incorrect because it by default means to go against something or someone.

‘Contradict’ means to deny the truth of (a statement) by asserting the opposite.

Hence, (b) is the correct answer.

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