Direction: Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence to make it a meaningful sentence. If no substitution is required, select ‘No substitution.’

The patients are shifted to another hospital that same evening as this hospital caught fire.

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were shifted at others hospital that same evening as this hospital caught fire.
were shifted to another hospital that same evening as this hospital caught fire.
were shifted to another hospital that same evening as this hospital catch fire.
No substitution

Answer 1

The correct answer is "were shifted to another hospital that same evening as this hospital caught fire."

Key Points

The error lies in the part "are shifted."
The verb "shifted" needs to be in the past tense to match the past tense of "caught fire."
"Are shifted" must be changed to "were shifted" to make the sentence grammatically correct.
The correct answer is Option 2.

Correct sentence: The patients were shifted to another hospital that same evening as this hospital caught fire.