Pointing to a photograph, Ketan said, "She is the mother of my daughter's…
2023
Pointing to a photograph, Ketan said, "She is the mother of my daughter's mother." How is Ketan related to the lady in the photograph?
- A.
Mother-in-law
- B.
Daughter-in-law
- C.
Son
- D.
Son-in-law
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Correct answer: D
To decode a compound kinship statement like 'the mother of my daughter's mother,' resolve the nested phrase starting from the innermost relation and work outward, then convert the final relation into the term that describes the speaker's relation to that person.
"My daughter's mother" refers to Ketan's own wife (the mother of Ketan's daughter is Ketan's wife).
The mother of Ketan's wife is Ketan's wife's mother — that is, the lady in the photograph.
A person's wife's mother is that person's mother-in-law, so the lady is Ketan's mother-in-law.
The reciprocal term for a man's relation to his mother-in-law is "son-in-law," so Ketan is the son-in-law of the lady in the photograph.
Checking the reverse direction confirms this: if the lady's daughter is married to Ketan, then Ketan is by definition the lady's son-in-law, and the lady is Ketan's mother-in-law — consistent with the chain above.