Question

Fill in the blank with the correct form of the noun:

I forgot to renew my _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to the cricket club. 

A. Member 

B. Membership 

C. Members list

D. None of the above 

Answer 1

Hint: Any word that can be used to name a person, a place or a thing can be defined as a noun. In other words, nouns are naming words like- girl, building, bottle etc. Now that we know what nouns are, let us move on to their different forms. In different situations, people have to adjust with their surroundings. Similarly, a noun also has to ‘adjust’ itself in different sentences. For example, in the sentence, ‘I have listened to her songs more than a hundred times’. If instead of ‘times’, it would be ‘time’, then the sentence would have the wrong meaning. This is because ‘times’ is used to refer to the number of occurrences of an event. Whereas, ‘time’ refers to seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, years, etc. Both ‘time’ and ‘times’ resemble so closely, but they have altogether different meanings. 

Complete step by step answer:

Here we are going to check each option one by one so that we can detect the correct option containing the proper form of the noun. Now let us analyze the given options:

A) The first option, “member”, is a common noun which is a generic name for a person, place, or thing in a class or group.In the given question, the subject is 'I', who 'forgot to renew' something. We know that ‘member’ is a common noun and it can’t be filled in the blank (the blank cannot be another person). Hence option A is not the correct answer.

B) If we look at the second option, 'Membership', we can see that it is an abstract noun. This word refers to the fact of being a member of a particular group (the cricket club). Also, this word meaningfully completes the given sentence. Hence this is the correct answer.

C) The third option, ‘Members List’, is incorrect as a ‘members list’ is generally maintained by the organisers of a club. Moreover, the word ‘my’ (before the blank) indicates that the blank is something that belongs or is to be done by the speaker (I). Hence, this is not correct. 

D) Option D is also incorrect as the answer is from one of the options given above. 

Therefore, the correct answer  is option B. 

Note:

We use nouns to describe any person, thing, place, feeling, behaviour etc. They can be common, specific, collective, abstract, material nouns and so on. Here we can find that the noun ‘membership’ is also related with another noun which is ‘member’, but one should be careful to find out which noun is appropriate for which context.