Question

Complete using the most appropriate option:
Ted got ____________ by a swarm of bees while he was sitting in the garden.
a) damaged
b) attacked
c) strung
d) hit

Answer 1

Hint: It is a question of vocabulary. If you know the correct meaning of the given options, you can choose the correct answer. As usual, use the option in the given sentence and see if it makes sense. Ask yourself what does a swarm of bees do to a person?

Complete answer:
Option a is the wrong answer because” Ted got damaged by a swarm of bees” does not make sense. Damage means to be destroyed. So using the word damaged for a human is wrong. Damaged is usually used for non-living things in general. For example, the wood was damaged by the heavy rain that occurred through the night.
Option b is the correct answer because a swarm of bees usually attacks a person. Therefore, Ted got attacked by a swarm of bees while he was sitting in the garden is grammatically correct.
Option c is a wrong answer because first of all, strung is the wrong word to be used. If the word would have been stung, then it would have been correct but since the word strung is not appropriate for the sentence, therefore it is the wrong option.
Option d is wrong because a swarm of bees does not hit people. They either attack or sting people. Using hit for such a sentence is grammatically incorrect.

Note:
 It is highly possible that students get confused between options b and c. This is because the word strung is very similar to the word stung. Thus, read the options carefully and see that the word used is not stung but strung. If the word would have been stung, then we would have had two correct answers.