Verbal Ability - Selecting Words - Discussion

Agree with prashanth...but website already mentioned that punctuation will be ignored..

@ Chhavi & Janani : Please explain.

Yes even I am not satisfied with the answer.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Gray, Thomas

Source: THOMAS GRAY, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard, line 36, The Complete Poems of Thomas Gray, ed. H. W. Starr and J. R. Hendrickson, p. 38 . Originally published in 1751.Nobody knew that [Major General James] Wolfe, reciting Grays Elegy in 1759 as he rowed up the St. Lawrence [to Quebec] the night before his death, said that he would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French tomorrow, until in 1815, in Vol. VII of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, appeared a biography of its secretary, John Robison, LL. D., professor of natural philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, who as a young man had been a midshipman in Wolfes flotilla.Carroll A. Wilson, Familiar Small College Quotations, II: Mark Hopkins and the Log, The Colophon, spring 1938, p. 204. This quote is about glory. Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

Still it sounds.. u know what..

poets will be poets.. they go out of the way all the time..

well i learned some thing new..

but if u ask a teacher he or she will strike it down..

all the same its good to learn the poets thought

I am really confused with the answer, it has no logic at all.

I don't know whether I go with poet or with english logic please some one explain.

"The paths of glory lead but to the grave" is a proverb.

Ya it should be straight. But doesn't fit over here.

Nothing exactly suits the given question.. it is now the probability that plays major part in deciding the answer about which gives a meaningful sentence .

The paths of glory lead but to the grave ... it could be 'leads to the grave excluding but' ..

straight to the grave...!
directly to the grave ...! doesn't make much sense than using leads itself which is there in the question itself..

So its noW the part BUT , the conjunction that makes the two ends meet ..it doesn't change the quality of the sentence.. but--> adds little more efforts though.