Question

Complete the following sentences with the help of the words given in brackets -
1. He has ........... a wrong inference. (draw)
2. I am afraid I did not make myself ............... (understand)
3. The brave admiral was accidentally ............. in the arm. (wound)
4. His rashness ............. him his life. (cost)
5. His company is greatly ............. after. (seek)
6. Hari has ............. his heart on success. (set)
7. Three years Lucy ............. in sun and shower. (grow)
8. I do not ............. what his father will say about it. (know)
9. He should have ............. the letter yesterday. (answer)
10. The majority accepted the ........... proposal. (later, latter, letter)
11. I prefer the ............. book to the former. (later, latter)
12. I have an ............ sister. (old, older, elder)
13. Rama is ..........than Mohan by four years. (old, older, elder)
14. This is the ............ shop to my house. (next, nearest, nearer)
15. He ............. the fast for a week. (keep​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. drawn

2. understood

3. wounded

4. cost

5. sought

6. grew

8. know

9. answered

10. letter

11. latter

12. elder

13. older

14. nearest

15. kept

Explanation:

10. A letter proposal is a formal proposal in an assembly or general crowd to veto on a specific subject.

11. The word latter is most commonly used with former; for example- honey and sugar. Here, honey becomes the former and sugar becomes the latter.

12. Old refers to an adjective for a particular person only, but here we are comparing the age of the person with their sister. Hence "elder" is used.

13. The word "older" is used to distinctively compare two ages between two people, and you cannot use elder, since elder refers to a designation or a post of someone in a person's life.

14. This connector is used to define the position of the shop with respect to his house. "Next" shop is not valid here but would be if the sentence was such- This shop is next to my house.

Hope this helps.