IPMAT Indore 2023 (VA) - When you play the ‘Secret Santa’, you are expected to buy a gift for <u>whoever you are assigned</u>, without letting them know that you are the one buying the gift. | PYQs + Solutions

IPMAT Indore 2023

Sentence Correction

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When you play the ‘Secret Santa’, you are expected to buy a gift for whoever you are assigned, without letting them know that you are the one buying the gift.

who you are assigned

whomever you are assigned

whom you are assigned

whoever you are assigned

Correct Option: 2

Option 1: who you are assigned - Incorrect. "Who" is typically used as the subject of a verb, but in this phrase, the pronoun is the object of the verb "are assigned." Therefore, "who" is not appropriate here.

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Option 2: whomever you are assigned - Correct. "Whomever" is the object form of "whoever" and is used correctly here as the object of the verb "are assigned."

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Option 3: whom you are assigned - Incorrect. While "whom" is the correct object form, the phrase needs the compound form "whoever" or "whomever" because it stands as a complete clause "whomever you are assigned" where "you are assigned whomever."

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Option 4: whoever you are assigned - Incorrect. "Whoever" is used as the subject of a verb within its clause, and in this clause, "whoever" is not the subject but the object of "are assigned." Therefore, it should be "whomever."

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IPMAT Indore 2023 (VA) PYQs

When you play the ‘Secret Santa’, you are expected to buy a gift for whoever you are assigned, without letting them know that you are the one buying the gift.

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