Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so. Choose the correct option.
He has failed many times. Still, he hopes to succeed.
Topic: Synthesis — clause of contrast
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Pick an option and check your answer. The full worked answer is below either way.
Answer
(c) In spite of many failures, he hopes to succeed..
The relationship is CONTRAST — he has failed and YET he hopes — and "in spite of many failures" expresses it correctly.
Option (b) is the trap and it is a pure grammar point: the phrase is "DESPITE" or "IN SPITE OF", never "despite of". Learn the pair together, because mixing them is one of the commonest errors in Indian written English: despite + noun (despite his failures) in spite of + noun (in spite of his failures)
Option (a) changes the tense and drops the hope entirely. Option (d) reverses the logic — "he failed even though he hopes" makes the hoping the obstacle, which is nonsense.
In spite of many failures, he hopes to succeed..