Fill in the blanks by choosing suitable words from the options given below:
He ___________ through the forest till he found the ___________.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Rode - Road
Homophones: rode and road:
- Homophones are words that sound the same but differ in meaning and spelling.
- The two blanks:
- the first needs a verb in the past tense: rode, the past of "ride" (he travelled on a horse or cycle);
- the second needs a noun after "the": road, a way for travel.
- This sentence: "He rode through the forest till he found the road."
Example: She rode her bicycle along the narrow road.
Complete sentence: He rode through the forest till he found the road.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 2: Road - Rod — Incorrect. "Road" is a noun and cannot be the verb in "He road"; a rod is a thin straight bar, which makes no sense as what he found.
Option 3: Rod - Rode — Incorrect. The order is reversed: "He rod" has no verb, and "found the rode" puts a verb where a noun is needed.
Option 4: Road - Rolled — Incorrect. "He road" is wrong, and "rolled" is a verb (turned over and over), not a thing one finds.
Contrast: rode is the past of the verb "ride"; road is the noun, a way for travel.