Question: Directions: In each of the following sentences, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four.
Mr Pillai, the president of the union and who is also a member of the community group , will be in charge of the negotiations.
c (c) is the correct answer choice.
This question tests you for parallelism. There are two possible parallel structures:
(i) Mr Pillai, X and Y, will be ... (phrase X and Y placed in apposition).
(ii) Mr Pillai, who is X and also Y, will be ... (use of who-clause)
There are also other ways to express the same idea but with different shades of meaning/emphasis:
(iii) Since Mr Pillai is X and Y, he will be ... (two main clauses joined by ‘some’ as a conjunction).
(iv) Being X and Y, Mr Pillai will be ... (use of participial clause).
Answer choice (c) matches with (i) above. Other choices do not match with any of the other possible grammatical structures.