Directions : In the sentences given below, four words have been highlighted…
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Directions : In the sentences given below, four words have been highlighted and placed in a sentence. Identify the correct sequence of the words in the sentence. Also, one of the given words may need to be replaced. Identify the correct sequence and the correct replacement and mark that option as your answer.
Partnerships between governments, the private sector, (A) civil institutions and (B) essential society will be (C) targets to ensure we meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (D) multilateral.
- A.
BDCA; C- torment
- B.
DCAB; B- efficacy
- C.
CDAB; A- civilian
- D.
DABC; all words are correct
- E.
No interchange required
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Correct answer: D
Concept
In a sentence-rearrangement-with-replacement task, restore the writer's intended meaning by placing each highlighted word in the slot where it is grammatically and semantically correct. A word is kept as a fixed collocation partner of the noun it modifies, while the predicate slot needs the word that completes the sense. Only after every word sits in a valid slot do you test whether any leftover word still violates sense and therefore needs replacing.
Application
Read the four slots in the order they appear and fit each highlighted word:
Slot before institutions: the fixed phrase is multilateral institutions, so this slot takes multilateral (D).
Slot before society: the fixed phrase is civil society, so this slot takes civil (A).
Slot after will be: the predicate needs an adjective of importance, giving will be essential, so this slot takes essential (B).
Slot after Goals: the only remaining word is targets (C); Sustainable Development Goals targets is a valid noun phrase, so it stays.
Reading the four slots in order gives the sequence D, A, B, C = DABC. The restored sentence is: “Partnerships between governments, the private sector, multilateral institutions and civil society will be essential to ensure we meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals targets.” Every word now occupies a correct slot, so no word needs to be replaced.
Cross-check
The wording matches the standard UN SDG-17 framing, which pairs “civil society” with “multilateral institutions” among the partners. Compare the rejected possibilities:
Any order placing essential or targets before institutions breaks the fixed collocation “multilateral institutions.”
Any order putting multilateral or targets before society breaks the fixed collocation “civil society.”
The proposed substitutes “torment,” “efficacy,” and “civilian” are unnecessary: each original word already fits a valid slot in the DABC order.
Result: the correct sequence is DABC and all words are correct (no replacement needed).