Question

Choose the correct word/phrase to complete the sentence.
It may have _________________ your notice, but it’s Children’s Day tomorrow.
a)Fled
b)Dropped
c)Bounced
d)Escaped

Answer 1

Hint: The sentence is conveying that the person has forgotten that it’s children’s day tomorrow. Therefore, the appropriate word for the blank would be something related to forgetting.

Complete step-by-step answer:

 If you carefully look at the above-given statement you will see that the person is talking about forgetting that the children’s day is tomorrow. So, what do we need to do? We need to find a word that relates to or gives off similar meaning to the sentence that the word forgotten would.
Now, we look into the options that are given to us and find the word most suitable for the blank.
Option a, fled is the past tense verb of the word – flee, which means to run away from a place, situation, or person of danger.
Option b dropped means something that has fallen or has been allowed to fall vertically.
Option c bounced means something that jumps repeatedly up and down. Something that is springy.
Option d escaped means to get away unnoticed or break free from confinement or control, etc.
If you look at it, you will see that if escape is used in the given blank it gives off the same meaning as forgetting something. Hence, as you can see this is the most appropriate word that can be used in the blank. This implies, that the option – d is the most appropriate or correct option that can be used here.
The other three options – a, b & c respectively are not used in the English language as they do not convey any meaning or give meaning to any phrase.

Note: Solve the question by keeping in mind that you need to bring out the appropriate meaning. So, try to eliminate words that do not seem appropriate, and that way you will get the solution.