IPMAT Indore 2026 · Verbal Ability · Question 29

IPMAT Indore 2026 previous year question on Sentence Improvement, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.

Sentence ImprovementGrammerMultiple choiceMedium

In the following sentence, the incorrect part is shown in bold. Choose an alternative from the four given options so that the sentence is rendered correct.

Don’t get mad at me. I did not invite a third person to the meeting; I only asked my assistant to create a link and sent it to the team.

  1. A

    create a link and send it

  2. B

    to create a link and sent it

  3. C

    creating a link and sending it

  4. D

    created a link and sent it

Pick an option, then check.
Answer & solution

Answer: Option A

The error is faulty parallelism inside an infinitive. The sentence runs “asked my assistant to…”, so both verbs must be bare infinitives governed by that single to:

\text{asked my assistant to}\underset{✓}{\underset{⏟}{\text{create}}}\text{a link and}\underset{✓}{\underset{⏟}{\text{send}}}\text{it}

The original pairs create with the past tense sent, which cannot follow to.

Why the others fail:

(b) “to create a link and sent it” repeats the to but keeps the past tense on the second verb — the actual error is untouched.

(c) gerunds cannot follow “asked my assistant to”.

(d) makes both verbs past tense, which breaks the infinitive construction entirely.

Answer: Option 1 — create a link and send it

Shortcut. Find the governing word — here to — and check that every verb joined by and can follow it directly. “To create… and send” works; “to create… and sent” does not. Same test as any parallelism question.

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