In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".  We have lost the magic of living, and (is mired) in numbers.?

Option 3 : are mired

The correct answer is 'are mired'

• According to the grammar, whenever we have 'adjectives/nouns/verbs' connected with the coordinate conjunction 'and' then we have to follow the parallelism.
• In the given sentence, 'have' is connected with the coordinate conjunction hence at the other side of the conjunction we need to use the plural form of the helping verb which is 'are'.
• Also, if we have two different things happening in the sentence and they are connected with the conjunction 'and' then, we have to use different verbs.
• In the given sentence, two things are happening which is 'we have lost the magic of living' and the other thing is 'is mired in the numbers' as they both are different hence we have used different verbs for the subject 'we'

So the correct sentence is- We have lost the magic of living, and are mired in numbers.