Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word from the given options:
Meera wrote down ________ the doctor said about the new medicine.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → what
Complete sentence: Meera wrote down what the doctor said about the new medicine. Here no noun comes before the blank. Meera wrote down the things that the doctor said.
| Option | Form and use | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) which | stands for a thing, but it needs a noun before it that it refers to | This is the bag which I bought in Jaipur. |
| (2) what (answer) | means the thing that or the things that; used when no noun comes before it | Tell Dadi what you saw at the zoo. |
| (3) whom | the object form of “who”, for a person who receives the action | The girl whom we met at the fair is my cousin. |
| (4) that | as a relative pronoun it also needs a noun before it, such as “the advice that” | He forgot the advice that his coach gave him. |