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Fill in the Blanks

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All Contextual Vocabulary 2563 Prepositional Usage 2021 Tense and Aspect 1751 Determiners 1005 Phrasal Verbs 949 Confusable Vocabulary 908 Pronoun Antecedent 867 Subject-Verb Agreement 735 Collocations 654 Idiomatic Expressions 627 Conjunctions and Connectors 557 Modals 390

Fill in the Blanks Questions

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. the

  2. an

  3. a

  4. that
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Indefinite article “an” will be used as the word following the article “extent” begins with the vowel sound.

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

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
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.

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. do not

  2. will not

  3. cannot

  4. does not

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

Cannot. Modal “can” will be used as the sentence is stating the ability. It should be used with the negative word “not” as negative implication is implied.

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.

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. likely

  2. likeness

  3. have likeness

  4. alike

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

Likely. Adjective form will be used conveying sense; seeming as if it would happen or might happen.

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. producing

  2. produces

  3. produce

  4. produced
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

produce. Subject and verb agreement. With the plural subject “newspapers” we will use the verb in the plural form.

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. potential below far

  2. below far potential

  3. far below potential

  4. potential far below

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

Far below potential. The correct word order is used only in the option (3).Incorrect phrasing is done in the other options.

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. working

  2. to work

  3. to working

  4. work

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

working. Present continuous tense is being used.

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. educating

  2. education

  3. educational

  4. educations
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

educational. Adjective form of the word will be used as it modifies the noun “role”.