Given below are four sentences. Choose the one which is grammatically correct:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → These mangoes in my basket came from Nana’s farm in Ratnagiri.
This, that, these and those:
- This and that go with singular nouns. These and those go with plural nouns. “This” and “these” are for things near us. “That” and “those” are for things far away.
- In Option 1, “mangoes” is plural and they are near, in my basket. So “these mangoes” is correct.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 2: Please carry this bags up to the second floor. — Incorrect. “Bags” is plural, but “this” goes only with a singular noun.
Corrected: Please carry these bags up to the second floor.
Option 3: Amit flew that kites from our terrace last Sankranti. — Incorrect. “Kites” is plural, so it needs “those”, not “that”.
Corrected: Amit flew those kites from our terrace last Sankranti.
Option 4: Didi bought these notebook for me at the station. — Incorrect. “Notebook” is singular, but “these” goes only with plural nouns.
Corrected: Didi bought this notebook for me at the station.