Fill in the blank with the correct pronoun:
Turn off the gas under the pressure cooker now. ________ been whistling for almost ten minutes.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → It’s
Complete sentence: Turn off the gas under the pressure cooker now. It’s been whistling for almost ten minutes. The blank is followed by “been whistling”, so the sentence needs “it has been”.
| Option | Form and use | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) It’s (answer) | the short form of it is or it has | It’s been raining in Chennai since morning. |
| (2) Its | means belonging to it; a noun always comes after it | The puppy chased its own tail round the room. |
| (3) It | stands for a thing and has no helping verb in it; a verb such as “has” or “is” must be written after it | It has stopped raining at last. |
| (4) Itself | used when a thing does an action to itself, or to stress “it” | The street lamp switches itself off at dawn. |