Fill in the blank with the correct pronoun:
We had left our umbrellas at home, but the Sharmas next door lent us ______ when the rain started.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → theirs
Complete sentence: We had left our umbrellas at home, but the Sharmas next door lent us theirs when the rain started. Here “theirs” stands for “their umbrellas”.
| Option | Form and use | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) their | belonging to them; always followed by a noun | The Iyers painted their house before Pongal. |
| (2) their’s | not a word: words like theirs, yours, ours never take an apostrophe | – |
| (3) they | the subject form, for the people who do the action | They moved to Nagpur last year. |
| (4) theirs (answer) | belonging to them; used alone, with no noun after it | Our team’s jerseys are blue; theirs are yellow. |