IPMAT Indore 2019
VA
Sentence Correction
Hard
The Municipal Council can no longer wash its hands off its responsibilities.
The Municipal Council can no longer wash its hands off its responsibilities.
Correct Option: 4
- wash its hands from its
- Incorrect. The idiom "wash hands" is followed by "of", not "from". Also, "its" is correct as it refers to the singular "Municipal Council".
- wash their hands off their
- Incorrect. "Their" doesn't agree with the singular "Municipal Council". Also, the correct idiom uses "of", not "off".
- wash their hand of their
- Incorrect. "Their" doesn't agree with the singular "Municipal Council". "Hand" should be plural in this idiom. "Of" is correct.
- wash its hands of its
- Correct. This uses the proper idiom "wash one's hands of" and correctly uses "its" to refer to the singular "Municipal Council".
- The correct idiom is "to wash one's hands of something", meaning to refuse to accept responsibility for something.
- "Municipal Council" is a singular collective noun, so it takes the singular pronoun "its".
- In idioms, it's important to use the correct preposition. Here, it's "of", not "off" or "from".
- Pay attention to subject-verb agreement and pronoun agreement, especially with collective nouns like "council".
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