Question: In each of the following sentences, parts of the sentence are left blank. Beneath each sentence, different ways of completing the sentence are indicated. Choose the best alternative among them.
The Darwin who ____ is most remarkable for the way in which he ____ the attributes of the world class thinker and head of the household.
The words for the second blank ‘figures’, ‘adds’, ‘combines’ are all in present (simple) tense. The first word should also take the same tense for tense consistency in the sentence. Therefore, option 4 (the word ‘appeared’ for the first blank is in past tense in place of ‘appears’) can be ruled out.