JIPMAT 2025
Grammar
Parts of Speech
Medium
Unlike, (i) Britain, the Indian Constitution has a Bill of Rights. This was a break with the past and the roots of the change lay in the history of the Indian freedom. Prior to the enactment of the Parliamentary Act of 1935, demands were made (ii) India for the incorporation into the Act a Bill of Rights. This demand was rejected by the British Government following its own tradition that freedom was best preserved not by constitutional provisions but by adherence to the rule of law and to unwritten practices and conventions. This was not (iii) to the Indian mind which had long suffered from discriminations, disabilities and oppressive acts of the foreign rulers. To Indians, as to most modern minds, a Bill of Rights was an essential feature of a complete Constitution. It has been said that "the Indian reaction" (in enacting the Bill of Rights), "like the American reaction, is in large measure a product of the British rule." The Indian Bill of Rights (iv), in a certain measure, the pattern of the Constitution of the United States of America, but it has also borrowed (v) from other Constitutions, and some of its provisions are indicative of the peculiar difficulties of the institutions of the country itself.
Pick the most appropriate word to fill (ii) in the given passage:
Pick the most appropriate word to fill (ii) in the given passage:
✅ Correct Option: 4
"Prior to the enactment of the Parliamentary Act of 1935, demands were made (ii) India for the incorporation into the Act a Bill of Rights." This sentence describes how demands were made regarding India, specifically for incorporating a Bill of Rights into the Parliamentary Act.We need a preposition or prepositional phrase that correctly connects "demands were made" with "India."In this context, we need to express that the demands were made by someone representing India's interests. The correct grammatical construction for this meaning is "on behalf of" (option 4).
Other options: "On behalf of India" properly indicates that someone was advocating for India's interests when making these demands. The phrase "on behalf" (without "of") is incomplete, "behalf of" lacks the necessary preposition "on," and "on the behalf of" is unnecessarily wordy with the article "the."Therefore, the correct answer is "on behalf of" (option 4).
Other options: "On behalf of India" properly indicates that someone was advocating for India's interests when making these demands. The phrase "on behalf" (without "of") is incomplete, "behalf of" lacks the necessary preposition "on," and "on the behalf of" is unnecessarily wordy with the article "the."Therefore, the correct answer is "on behalf of" (option 4).
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