Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution required’.
At the end of our first two weeks on the island, we were informed that our lawyers, Bram Fischer and Joel Joffe, were going to be visiting the following day.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. No substitution required
- The underlined part of the given sentence has no error.
- "We were informed" is correct as a passive sentence structure in the past tense.
- It indicates that the subject (we) received information from an unknown source.
- It also conveys the idea that the action of informing took place and had an effect on the subject.
The correct sentence is:
At the end of our first two weeks on the island, we were informed that our lawyers, Bram Fischer and Joel Joffe, were going to be visiting the following day.