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Directions: In the given question, a word has been mentioned and there are three ways in which the word has been used in either similar or different ways. You are required to check which of the sentences have correctly used the highlighted word, and mark that as your answer. Scale I. The government is planning a new salary scale for all professors of universities run by the UP government. II. We cannot track them in

Options

  1. AOnly II
  2. BOnly I and II
  3. COnly III
  4. DOnly I and III

Correct answer

D. Only I and III

Step-by-step solution

Sentence I. The government is planning a new salary scale for all professors of universities run by the UP government. The sentence above is absolutely correct as the word ‘scale’ here refers to ‘a graduated range of values forming a standard system for measuring or grading something’. Sentence II. We cannot track them in the mortal world until they use a substantial scale of magic. The usage of the word ‘scale’ is contextually wrong here and doesn’t make any sense. ‘

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