SOLUTION FILL IN THE BLANKS PRACTICE SET 8 SOLVED IN ENGLISH
FILL IN THE BLANKS Practice Set 8 SOLVED IN HINDI & ENGLISH (with options)
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1. Let’s make ——– our quarrel and be friends again.
Answer: A
Explanation: Option ‘A’. MAKE UP is a phrasal verb which means ‘to end a disagreement with somebody and become friends again’; e.g.
Has he made it up with her?
2. Vinay does not play cricket, and ——– does Yashwant.
Answer: D
Explanation: Option ‘D’. This sentence is a case of negative addition to a negative remark. Negative additions to negative remarks are made in the following manner:
| Neither/Nor | + | Affirmative Helping Verb of the remark | + | Subject |
| OR | ||||
| Subject | + | Negative Helping Verb of the remark | + | Either |
Some examples:
i) Mohan never goes to cinema, neither does his wife.
= Mohan never goes to cinema, nor does his wife.
= Mohan never goes to cinema, his wife doesn’t either.
ii) Reena doesn’t have a purse. — Neither do I.
= Reena doesn’t have a purse. — Nor do I.
= Reena doesn’t have a purse. — I don’t either.
In the given sentence the subject of the addition is at the end, so NEITHER is correct. NOR also is correct but it’s not available in the answer options.
3. Gandhiji will ——– in history as one of the greatest men that ever lived.
Answer: C
Explanation: Option ‘C’. GO DOWN (in sth) = to be written in sth; to be recorded or remembered in sth.
हिंदी में अनुवाद:
Gandhiji will go down in history as one of the greatest men that ever lived.
= महानतम व्यक्तियों में से एक के रूप में गांधीजी का नाम इतिहास में दर्ज होगा.
4. He has resigned himself ——– fate.
Answer: D
Explanation: Option ‘D’. Resign yourself to sth = to accept sth unpleasant that cannot be changed or avoided.
हिंदी में अनुवाद:
He has resigned himself to fate.
= उसने अपने आपको भाग्य के भरोसे छोड़ दिया है.
5. He ——– wants to succeed in life must be prepared to work hard.
Answer: C
Explanation: Option ‘C’. We need a subjective relative pronoun (a word which can be used as a subject) here. Obviously two such words are there in the sentence: WHOEVER and WHO. But WHOEVER is not possible in this sentence as this word itself includes HE in it. WHOEVER = who he; who she.
NOTE: If HE was not there in the sentence WHOEVER would have been correct. See it: Whoever wants to succeed in life must be prepared to work hard.
6. I’d had ——– of their fighting.
Answer: A
Explanation: Option ‘A’. ‘Have had enough (of sth/sb)’ is an idiom; it’s used when sb is annoying you and you no longer want to do.
7. It’s ——– for us to walk there.
Answer: C
Explanation: Option ‘C’. When the meaning is not negative, construction ‘adjective + enough + infinitive’ is used; not ‘not + adjective + infinitive’. Hence NEAR ENOUGH is our answer. ‘Too + adjective’ is used in a negative sense.
NOTE: Option ‘B’ (enough near) is incorrect. ENOUGH is both an adjective and an adverb. As adjective you can use ENOUGH in front of a noun, not after. As adverb you use ENOUGH after an adjective or adverb, not before; e.g.
a) There aren’t enough bedrooms for the family here in this house. (adjective)
b) This room is big enough for her. (adverb)
But here ENOUGH is an adverb as it’s qualifying an adjective, NEAR is an adjective.
8. She ——– college late that day.
Answer: D
Explanation: Option ‘D’. Time expression THAT DAY says we are talking about a finished action; so the Past Simple Tense only is possible.
9. I don’t like ——– salt in my food.
Answer: B
Explanation: Option ‘B’. We use MUCH TOO before adjectives, not before nouns. With nouns we use TOO MUCH. SALT is a noun; e.g.
INCORRECT: His failure is too much painful for me.
CORRECT: His failure is much too painful for me. (PAINFUL is an adjective.)
INCORRECT: His wife’s rude behaviour gives him much too pain.
CORRECT: His wife’s rude behaviour gives him too much pain. (PAIN is a noun.)
CORRECT: His wife’s rude behaviour gives him too much pain. (PAIN is a noun.)
10. There were ——– people there.
Answer: B
Explanation: Option ‘B’. MUCH is used before uncountable nouns and MANY with countable ones. PEOPLE is a countable noun, so ‘too many people’ is our answer.
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