Fill in the blanks in the given sentences in List-I with the prepositions in List-II
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List-I (Sentences) |
List-II (Prepositions) |
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(A) The city has undergone massive demographic changes ____ the last twenty years. |
(I) upon |
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(B) The erstwhile prosperous farmers have, of late, fallen ____ evil days. |
(II) over |
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(C) The wounded animal flung itself ____ its tormentor. |
(III) at |
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(D) The child endured days of fear ____ the thought of being sent to a hostel. |
(IV) on |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:-
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
| List-I | List-II | Explanation |
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| (A) The city has undergone massive demographic changes over the last twenty years. | (II) over | Over + a period of time means during the whole of that period. |
| (B) The erstwhile prosperous farmers have, of late, fallen on evil days. | (IV) on | Fall on evil (hard) days is a fixed phrase meaning to become poor or suffer misfortune. |
| (C) The wounded animal flung itself upon its tormentor. | (I) upon | To fling oneself upon (on) someone is to throw oneself at them in attack. "Upon" shows the movement onto the tormentor. |
| (D) The child endured days of fear at the thought of being sent to a hostel. | (III) at | At the thought of is the fixed phrase for the cause of a feeling: fear arising when one thinks of something. |