The correct answer is Option (4) - It being a rainy day
The sentence suggests that the trip was canceled due to the rain. The correct phrase should indicate cause and effect while maintaining proper grammatical structure.
- "It being a rainy day, we had to cancel the trip."
- This structure correctly uses a present participle phrase ("It being a rainy day") to express the reason for canceling the trip.
- The phrase acts as a dependent clause giving the cause, followed by the main clause ("we had to cancel the trip").
Other Options
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Option 1: Being a rainy day – This lacks a clear subject and sounds awkward because it doesn’t specify what is being referred to.
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Option 2: Having been a rainy day – This is grammatically possible but suggests the rain had already stopped, which doesn’t align well with the idea of cancelling a trip due to ongoing weather.
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Option 3: It had been a rainy day – This is a complete sentence, but it doesn’t function as a subordinate clause or reason the way the prompt structure requires.
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