The walls of the subway have been plastered with light yellow GMAT Sentence Correction

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Question: The walls of the subway have been plastered with light yellow plaster which rob it out of its antiquity.

  1. plastered with light yellow plaster which rob it out of its antiquity.
  2. plastered over with light yellow plaster which robs it out of its antiquity.
  3. plastered over with light yellow plaster which robs them out of their antiquity.
  4. plastered with light yellow plaster which rob them out of their antiquity.
  5. plastered by light yellow plaster which robs them out of their antiquity.

“The walls of the subway have been plastered with light yellow plaster which rob it out of its antiquity. - is a GMAT sentence correction question. These types of questions contain grammatical errors in the underlined sentence and we have to choose the correct statement from the options. This topic is the GMAT verbal question that comes with five options and candidates need to choose the one which is correct. GMAT sentence correction is a part of GMAT verbal. It checks whether the candidate is able to decode the inaccuracy in the sentence. It also checks if they are able to bring out an idea or meaning of the context.

Answer: C

Explanation: This is a GMAT critical reasoning question. An assumption is an implied hypothesis. So we are looking for something that is implied in the argument. In case it is wrong or maybe disable the argument.

The statement given is:

The walls of the subway have been plastered with light yellow plaster which rob it out of its antiquity.

Out of all 5 options, options C and E come the closest but C is correct.

E is incorrect because, it is incorrect to assume that the plaster itself accomplished the act of plastering the walls, the term "plastered by light yellow plaster" should really signify that someone used the plaster to plaster the walls.

C is correct because option C Corrects the error of preposition, subject verb agreement, and pronoun.

Because plaster is done over the wall, so ‘ plastered over ’ is the correct use.

Verb ‘robs’ refers to ‘plaster’ (singular) and pronoun ‘it’ and ‘its’ refer to ‘the walls’ (plural

noun) so ‘it’ and ‘its’ should be replaced by ‘them’ and ‘their’.

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