Select the most appropriate pair of determiners to fill in the blanks in the following sentence:-
Have you had _____ news from your family in Mumbai? I heard that _____ areas were badly flooded.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → any, some
Have you had any news from your family in Mumbai? I heard that some areas were badly flooded.
"Any" is appropriate for use in questions (interrogative sentences) when asking about an unspecified quantity or existence of uncountable nouns like "news."
some → used to refer to an unspecified number or amount (usually positive), such as some areas.