Select the option that will most suitably substitute the underlined part of the given sentence.
He was not happy until he gave up his job and live as a fakir in the forests.
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. until he gave up his job and lived.
The underlined part " until he gave up his job and live" is incorrect because the sentence requires parallelism in verb tenses. Since "gave up" is in the past tense, the verb that follows should also be in the past tense.
The most suitable substitution for the underlined part of the sentence is "until he gave up his job and lived."
Here, "lived" is the correct past tense verb that maintains parallelism with "gave up."
So the corrected sentence would be "He was not happy until he gave up his job and lived as a fakir in the forests."