Question:
Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence:
The country has at least twenty colleges [of whom only ten are properly maintained].
वाक्य के कोष्ठक वाले भाग को प्रतिस्थापित करने के लिए सबसे उपयुक्त विकल्प का चयन कीजिए:
The country has at least twenty colleges [of whom only ten are properly maintained].
Options:
- of whom only ten are properly maintained
- of whom only ten have been properly maintained
- of which only ten has proper maintenance
- of which only ten are properly maintained
- of whom only ten are properly maintained
- of whom only ten have been properly maintained
- of which only ten has proper maintenance
- of which only ten are properly maintained
Correct Answer: d)
Explanation:
Colleges are inanimate institutions (things), so the relative pronoun ‘which’ must be used instead of ‘whom’. Since ‘ten’ is plural, the plural verb ‘are’ is required: ‘of which only ten are properly maintained’.
कॉलेज निर्जीव संस्थाएं हैं, इसलिए ‘whom’ (व्यक्तियों के लिए) के स्थान पर ‘which’ का प्रयोग होगा। ‘ten’ बहुवचन होने के कारण बहुवचन क्रिया ‘are’ आएगी: ‘of which only ten are properly maintained’।