IPMAT Indore 2025 · Verbal Ability · Question 15

IPMAT Indore 2025 previous year question on Sentence Completion and Insertion, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.

Sentence Completion and InsertionVerbal AbilityMultiple choiceMedium

Choose the sentence that best fills the blank in the passage.

As globalization held sway over the world, communities, which used to live in relative isolation, sought access to the wider world, and in the process, they parted with their own language and adopted a new lingua franca. The loss of language, however, does not merely mean the loss of a mode of communication or the loss of a few thousand words. __________________________. So, when a language dies, a way of thinking dies with it.

  1. A
    A certain school of thought regrets the demise of local languages but in recent times revival movements have emerged across the world, especially in India
  2. B
    A potentially endangered language can sometimes appear to be thriving, or on the other hand, it can show signs of declining
  3. C
    Languages exist not only for the purposes of practical communication; they convey a linguistic community’s entire mindset and its culture
  4. D
    Since evolution and change in languages is a part of history, most of the languages spoken today would be scarcely recognizable from what they were a few thousand or maybe even a few hundred years ago
Pick an option, then check.
Answer & solution

Answer: Option C

The blank is tightly bracketed — use both neighbours.

Before: losing a language is not merely losing a means of communication or some vocabulary. After: “So, when a language dies, a way of thinking dies with it.”

The “not merely… so…” frame demands a sentence that supplies the something more — and that something must be about thought and culture, because that is what the conclusion draws on.

Why option 3 works. “Languages exist not only for the purposes of practical communication; they convey a linguistic community’s entire mindset and its culture.”

“not only for practical communication” mirrors the preceding “not merely a mode of communication” ✓

“entire mindset” is exactly what licenses the following “a way of thinking dies with it” ✓

Why the others fail: options 1, 2 and 4 are all about languages but none mentions thought or culture, so none makes the word “So” in the next sentence earn its place. Option 1 adds revival movements, option 2 adds diagnosis of endangerment, option 4 adds historical change — all irrelevant to the conclusion drawn.

Answer: Option 3

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