SOLUTION FILL IN THE BLANKS PRACTICE SET 9 IN ENGLISH
FILL IN THE BLANKS Practice Set 9 SOLVED IN HINDI & ENGLISH (with options)
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1. It cost ——– to buy.
Answer: B
Explanation: Option ‘B’. When the meaning is negative ‘too + adjective + full infinitive (to + V1) is used. The meaning here is negative.
Hindi translation of the given sentence : उस वस्तु की कीमत इतनी अधिक थी कि वो खरीदी नहीं जा सकती थी.
2. The government didn’t have ——– to pass the law.
Answer: A
Explanation: Option ‘A’. SUPPORT is a noun, and if ENOUGH needs to be used it comes before the noun unlike the adverbs where it comes after them. Here option ‘B’ (too much support) is incorrect as TOO MUCH is used in a negative sense, hence incorrect here.
3. The school annual sports day is postponed and it would now ——– on the 14 of next month.
Answer: B
Explanation: Option ‘B’. WOULD like all other modal verbs is always followed by the first form of the main verb or helping verb as the case may be. Among all the options only BE is the first form.
4. Students of St. Xavier’s ——– all the prizes.
Answer: B
Explanation: Option ‘B’. Bear away = to win
5. With danger ——– the door, you cannot sit idle.
Answer: A
6. My servant ——– with all my money.
Answer: C
Explanation: Option ‘C’. Run off with something = to steal something and take it away
7. The driver was ——– injured; he died within an hour.
Answer: B
Explanation: Option ‘B’. FATAL = causing or ending in death: e.g. Fatal accident/blow/illness. Here we need an adverb form; therefore it will be FATALLY.
8. Lata Mangeshkar was ——– with a natural talent for music.
Answer: C
Explanation: Option ‘C’. ‘Be endowed with sth’ is a phrasal verb which means ‘to naturally have a particular feature, quality, etc.’
9. When I pointed my camera ——– the baby, she began to cry.
Answer: A
Explanation: Option ‘A’. Point something (at somebody/something) = to aim something at somebody/something; e.g.
a) He pointed the gun at her head.
b) A hundred camera lenses were being pointed at her.
POINT TOWARDS = to stretch out your finger or something held in your hand towards somebody/something in order to show somebody where a person or thing is.
10. Lemons are sold ——– in the market.
Answer: D
Explanation: Option ‘D’
BY THE DOZEN =
a) in groups of 12; e.g.
Eggs are normally sold by the dozen.
b) If something is being produced by the dozen, large numbers of that thing are being produced; e.g.
The government is producing new policies by the dozen.
c) In large numbers; e.g.
He would sit all day in the dark watching videos by the dozen.
BY THE DOZENS = many; by some fairly large, indefinite number, but implying less than hundreds; e.g.
a) Just then people began showing up by the dozens.
b) I baked cookies and pies by the dozens for the charity bake sale.
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