Discussion
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks.
India's diesel-electric submarines are still lying in Severodvinsk in Russia ______ after a major refit due to Western sanctions on Russia post the Ukraine war. The plan now is to sail one of the submarines to a Norwegian port in February and then ferry it ______ ship to Mumbai.
Answer: A
The pair is even, by. ‘Still lying ... even after a major refit’ shows the unexpected persistence of the situation, and the second blank takes ‘by’: ferry it by ship.
‘Such’, ‘so’ and ‘as’ do not fit before ‘after’, and ‘in ship’, ‘on ship’ and ‘with ship’ are not idiomatic for the means of transport in this sentence.
The word ‘even’ stresses the surprise that the submarines are still there after the refit. The sentence also needs a preposition of means in the second blank, so ‘by ship’ completes the phrase, as in by road or by air.
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