Question

Complete using the most appropriate option:
Did ______ help him in his career?
a) The fact that his father was a professor
b) He was rich and friendly
c) That he won a scholarship
d) His teacher recommended him

Answer 1

Hint:
We have a question related to phrases. A phrase is a set of words that does not make a complete sentence. To answer the given question we have to select the option which completes the sentence and to do so successfully, selects the option which you think is correct, and then use it in the given sentence and then check if the sentence makes complete sense.

Complete answer:
The correct answer is the option a because when we put the phrase “the fact that his father was a professor”, the complete sentence is “Did the fact that his father was a professor help him in his career?” This sentence when read makes complete sense and is therefore the correct answer.
Option b is the wrong answer because “he was rich and friendly help him in his career” is a wrong sentence and usage of did and was as a helping verb is grammatically wrong.
Option c is wrong because “did that he won a scholarship” is wrong on its own. It is grammatically wrong. Usage of did and that consecutively is wrong.
Option d is incorrect because “did his teacher recommended him” is grammatically incorrect. Did and recommended is the usage of two past tenses together. If we are already using did in a sentence, we cannot use recommended in the same sentence. To make the sentence grammatically correct, we have to use the word recommend instead of the past tense recommended.

Note:
Apart from knowing the rules of grammar, an important way of getting the correct answer is by using the options in the given sentence to see if it makes sense because sometimes even after following rules if the sentence does not make sense, then it is incorrect.