Fill in the blank with the most suitable option from the words given below:
The kabadiwala bought everything ________ we had piled up on the terrace, even the broken table fan.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → that
Complete sentence: The kabadiwala bought everything that we had piled up on the terrace, even the broken table fan. Here the blank comes after “everything”. It joins the clause “we had piled up on the terrace”.
| Option | Form and use | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) what | means the thing that; used only when no noun or pronoun comes before it | Tell me what you want for dinner. |
| (2) who | used for people, not things | The girl who won the race is my neighbour. |
| (3) that (answer) | the relative pronoun after words such as all, everything, nothing and anything | The guests praised everything that Nani cooked. |
| (4) whose | shows belonging; a noun always comes right after it | This is the farmer whose cows give the best milk. |