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. these

  2. that

  3. those

  4. this

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

This. Singular pronoun “this” will be used as we are referring to a single function.

Keep practicing — related questions