Choose the best option to complete the sentence:
________ we found in Nani’s old steel almirah was a bundle of letters from 1965.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → What
Complete sentence: What we found in Nani’s old steel almirah was a bundle of letters from 1965. Here the blank opens the sentence and has no noun to stand for.
| Option | Form and use | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) Which | as a relative pronoun it needs a noun before it to stand for | The pen which I lost was a gift. |
| (2) Whom | stands for a person as the object, not for a thing | The doctor whom we met was very kind. |
| (3) What (answer) | means the thing that or the things that; used when no noun comes before it | What Dadi cooked for Eid was delicious. |
| (4) Whose | shows belonging and is followed by a noun | The boy whose kite was cut began to cry. |