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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: Choose the correct word(s) from the options given below.

My private diary _____, was lost and I could not record the events of the week.

  1. in which I was writing something

  2. which I was writing

  3. that I was writing in

  4. that I had been writing in
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The past perfect continuous tense is required here to show an action that was ongoing up to a point in the past. That I had been writing in correctly completes the relative clause.

Multiple choice

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the correct option.

My uncle was afflicted ________ a serious illness and was almost confined ______ bed ________ more than two months.

  1. to, to, since

  2. by, on, since

  3. with, to, for

  4. by, on, for
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

We get afflicted 'with' a disease/illness. 'Confined to bed' means bed-ridden. We know a disease afflicted person becomes bed-ridden. To show duration of time, we use preposition 'for'. Hence. option 4.