In each of the questions given below five words are given in bold. These five…
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In each of the questions given below five words are given in bold. These five words may or may not be in their correct position. The sentence is then followed by options with the correct combination of words that should replace each other in order to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct. Find the correct combination of the words that replace each other. If the sentence is correct as it is then select option (e) as your choice.
In behavioural economics, choices (A) are interventions (B) that influence people’s choices to make certain decisions (C) without restricting (D) the nudges (E) available to them.
Answer: D. E-A — ConceptIn a word-swap (word-rearrangement) task, exactly two of the marked words have been placed where the other belongs; restoring sense means finding the…
- A.
D-A
- B.
E-C
- C.
B-D
- D.
E-A
- E.
No interchange required
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Correct answer: D
Concept
In a word-swap (word-rearrangement) task, exactly two of the marked words have been placed where the other belongs; restoring sense means finding the single pair that, when interchanged, makes the sentence both grammatical and meaningful. The anchor here is the technical meaning of the term: in behavioural economics a “nudge” is itself an intervention that gently steers people’s decisions while leaving their freedom of choice intact — so it is the option set (the “choices”) that must remain unrestricted, not the nudges.
Application
Read the frame of the sentence: “___ are interventions that influence people’s choices to make certain decisions without restricting ___ available to them.” The subject must be the thing that IS an intervention, and the object after “restricting” must be the thing left free.
By definition a nudge IS an intervention, so “nudges” belongs in the subject slot occupied by “choices (A)”.
What a nudge must NOT restrict is the person’s set of options, i.e. their “choices”, so “choices” belongs in the object slot occupied by “the nudges (E)”.
Therefore A and E swap. The restored sentence reads: “In behavioural economics, nudges are interventions that influence people’s choices to make certain decisions without restricting the choices available to them.”
Cross-check
Interventions (B), decisions (C) and restricting (D) already sit correctly — “interventions that influence… decisions without restricting…” is fluent and consistent with the definition. Only the A–E interchange is needed, so “E-A” is the correct combination.
interventions (B): correctly describes what the relevant measures are.
decisions (C): correctly fits the idea of influencing what people decide.
restricting (D): correctly expresses what should not be done to freedom.