Question
Research in the workplace reveals that people work for many reasons __________
Official answer and solution
- Official answer
- D
- From
- Official GATE 2017 answer key
Solution
Distinguish between the prepositions 'beside' and 'besides' to choose the phrase that conveys 'in addition to'.
The sentence intends to express that people work for many reasons in addition to monetary compensation.
- "Beside" is a spatial preposition meaning "by the side of" or "next to" (for example, "sit beside me").
- "Besides" means "in addition to" or "apart from" (for example, "besides English, he speaks French").
The intended meaning is "apart from / in addition to money", which requires the prepositional phrase "besides money".
Therefore, option (D) is the only grammatically and semantically correct choice.
Final answer
D
The answer is the one in the official GATE answer key. The solution is this site's own explanation.
Source
- Paper
- GATE 2017 Computer Science and Information Technology (CS) Session 1
- Question
- 57 of 65, printed as GA Q.57
- Section
- General Aptitude
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