Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentence has an underlined part. Below the sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them is better than the underlined part, indicate it as your response. Otherwise, mark your answer as (4).

The King asked the philosopher who he considered the happiest man living.

  1. which

  2. whom

  3. whose

  4. No improvement required

  5. .
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The pronoun ‘whom’ is used as the object of a verb or preposition. In this context, the pronoun ‘whom’ is the object of the verb ‘considered’. Thus, this is the correct answer.

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