Question

You must either(a) inform the police else(b) be prepared to suffer any loss.(c) No error(d)

• (a)
• (b)
• (c)
• (d)

Hint:

Either → Or, Neither → Nor (fixed pairs).

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Let's analyze the given sentence: "You must either(a) inform the police else(b) be prepared to suffer any loss.(c) No error(d)". We need to evaluate if there is any grammatical or structural error in the sentence.

1. The first part of the sentence, "You must either inform the police," is grammatically correct and sets up the condition that there are two possibilities or actions.
2. The error in the sentence is related to the correlative conjunctions used. The phrase "either...else" is not a correct pairing. In English, the correct pairing should be "either...or". Therefore, the sentence should read as: "You must either inform the police or be prepared to suffer any loss."
3. Option (b) contains the incorrect word "else", which needs to be replaced with "or" to make the sentence correct with the proper usage of correlative conjunctions.
4. Thus, the correct answer is option (b).

Using "either...or" allows us to correctly indicate that only one of the two actions must happen, which conveys the intended meaning of providing a choice.