Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
Election was an ‘opinion minus democracy’ in which the innocent and helpless (people were pitted among) government’s muscle power State machinery.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is option 1, i.e. people were pitted against.
- The given sentence implies it's sense in the past tense, which is why it is important to use the past form of the action, that is 'were pitted'. Also, the meaning that the sentence tries to establish here is that the innocent people were differentiated by the State machinery. In this instance, to indicate the same meaning it is accurate to use 'against' instesad of 'among'.