Fill in the blank with the correct pronoun:
On the last day of school, all forty students of Class 12-B exchanged phone numbers with ________.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → one another
Complete sentence: On the last day of school, all forty students of Class 12-B exchanged phone numbers with one another. Here forty students swap numbers among themselves.
| Option | Form and use | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) one another (answer) | shows that people do the same action to each other in turn; school grammar uses “each other” for two and “one another” for more than two | The five friends wished one another on Eid. |
| (2) themselves | a reflexive pronoun: each person does the action to his or her own self, not to the others | The players dried themselves after the rain stopped. |
| (3) them | the object form for some other people, not the people who are the subject | The guests arrived early, so we gave them tea. |
| (4) theirs | means belonging to them | Our flat is small, but theirs has a big balcony. |