Multiple choice

Directions: Fill in the blank.

Directions: Select the correct word or phrase to complete a grammatical sentence.

A newspaper (1) ______claim to be great until and unless it plays a strong educational role in society. Over the long term Indian newspapers have been performing (2) ______ function, to (3) ______ extent, in areas such as politics and public affairs, the economy, foreign policy business, science and technology, school and higher education, literature, music and sports. However, this (4) ______ role has been performed (5) ______. When the educational function is taken up systematically and (6) ______ by Indian newspapers, exciting results are (7) ______ to follow. Apart from this,(8) ______ function involves socially conscious newspapers (9) ______ hard to trigger agenda building processes to help (10) ______ democratic and progressive outcomes.

  1. another

  2. other

  3. others

  4. few other

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A Correct answer
Explanation

(1) another. Adjective “another” will be used as we are talking about an additional function. Adjective “other” cannot be used as it refers to all the remaining functions and is followed by a plural noun.

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