Question

Q.24
The people of the world need excuses to fight
(a) among himself
(b)among themselves
(c) among yourself
(d) among itself
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Answer 1

The people of the world need excuses to fight (b) among themselves.

• In the field of English grammar, the correct tense, words, grammar and sentence structure, all play an important role to make a meaningful sentence.
• In the sentence above, we need to use a reflexive pronoun that is not a relative one or self pronoun as the sentence refers to people of the world.
• Hence, the correct option would be option b) which uses themselves as the pronoun.

• Other options, such as option (a) is not correct as it has 'himself' as the pronoun which is reflexive form of he only.