Direction: In the following questions, a sentence/part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold sentence/part of the sentence at (1), (2) and (3) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, your answer is (4).
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The bank manager was given a holiday and so he resolved to go for hitch-hiking.
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- with hitch-hiking
- for the hitch-hiking
- hitch-hiking
- No improvement
Correct Option: C
hitch hike (Verb) : to travel by asking for free rides in other people’s cars, by standing at the side of the road and trying to get passing cars to stop
⇒ They hitch hiked around Europe.
Here, hitch-hiking is the right usage.
