Question:
Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence:
The teacher gave the students extra time to eat it during the break.
वाक्य के रेखांकित भाग को प्रतिस्थापित करने के लिए सबसे उपयुक्त विकल्प चुनिए:
The teacher gave the students extra time to eat it during the break.
Options:
- to eat
- to eat its
- eating it
- eat it
- to eat
- to eat its
- eating it
- eat it
Correct Answer: a)
Explanation:
Since no specific food item was mentioned previously as an antecedent for the pronoun ‘it’, using the intransitive infinitive ‘to eat’ is grammatically precise and natural: ‘extra time to eat during the break’.
चूँकि वाक्य में पहले किसी विशेष खाद्य वस्तु का उल्लेख नहीं है जिसके लिए ‘it’ प्रयुक्त हो, अतः बिना सर्वनाम के केवल इन्फिनिटिव ‘to eat’ का प्रयोग सबसे उपयुक्त है।