Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word from the given options:
Our class teacher, Mrs Kulkarni, ______ carried the heavy first-aid box up the hill to the camp.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → herself
Complete sentence: Our class teacher, Mrs Kulkarni, herself carried the heavy first-aid box up the hill to the camp. Here “herself” stresses “Mrs Kulkarni”, and the sentence is still complete without it.
| Option | Form and use | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) herself (answer) | an emphatic pronoun: it comes right after a noun to stress it, showing that this person, and no one else, did the action | Dadi herself cooked the whole Diwali feast. |
| (2) hers | means belonging to her; it stands for a thing she owns, not for the person | The blue scarf on the chair is hers. |
| (3) she | the subject form; the subject, “Mrs Kulkarni”, is already named, so a second subject cannot follow it | She teaches us maths. |
| (4) her | the object form, or it comes before a noun to show belonging | We gave her a card on Teachers’ Day. |