In the question below, I divided the sentence using " on the contrary", which is a contrast.
The first part means he is not provincial, which is positive
Therefore I filled the second blank as -ve, i.e. “knew nothing about”.
Did I go for the wrong division?
Should I have gone for the semicolon?
@gregmat
Yeah, this one is pretty tricky. The “on the contrary” is contrasting with the idea of the man “remaining provincial,” the opposite of which means he knew a lot about the international scene. You have to ignore the “not” in this sentence. It’s similar to this structure.
I am not a student; on the contrary, I am a teacher.
Hello @gregmat . Is my thought process of doing a Block-Of-Four correct in this question? Like,
Remaining in hometown <–> not Provincial
artistic movements <–> blank ?
The first part of the sentence means that he chose to remain in his hometown and I’ve taken this in a negative sense and ‘that’ means that they have the same meaning which is provincial in this case. On the contrary is negative, therefore the second part has to be positive which eliminates option D. And E doesn’t make sense. So we’re left with option F. Do correct me if my logic is wrong or is there any other approach?
