Directions : In the following items a pair of sentences (S1, S2) is given. Select the most appropriate and relevant co-relationship of the second sentence to the first from among the options (a), (b), (c) and (d), and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
S1. The medicine was supposed to reduce his fever.
S2. Even after taking it, his temperature continued to rise.
The second sentence :
- Anegates the first
- Bcontrasts with the first
- Cconfirms the first
- Dqualifies the first
Explanation
S1 creates the expectation that the fever should fall, and S2 reports the exact opposite outcome — the temperature kept rising despite the medicine. The second sentence therefore cancels, or negates, the proposition set up by the first; the expected effect did not merely differ, it failed to occur at all. “Negates” captures this direct undoing better than “contrasts”, which would only set two facts side by side. It does not confirm or qualify S1. Hence (a) negates the first.