Which of the following sentences use the verbs correctly?
(A) Can you lend me your geometry box for tomorrow’s test?
(B) Our new neighbour has offered to learn me the tabla on weekends.
(C) Someone robbed my new cycle from outside the library.
(D) Please take this tiffin to your father at the shop.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A) and (D) only
(A) Can you lend me your geometry box for tomorrow’s test? — Correct.
- “Lend” means to give something to someone for a short time, so “lend me your geometry box” is right.
(B) Our new neighbour has offered to learn me the tabla on weekends. — Incorrect.
- “Learn” means to get knowledge yourself. To give knowledge to someone else is “teach”.
- Correct form: Our new neighbour has offered to teach me the tabla on weekends.
(C) Someone robbed my new cycle from outside the library. — Incorrect.
- We rob a person or a place, but we steal a thing. A cycle is a thing, so the verb must be “stole”.
- Correct form: Someone stole my new cycle from outside the library.
(D) Please take this tiffin to your father at the shop. — Correct.
- “Take” means to carry something away from where the speaker is, so “take this tiffin to your father” is right.