Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
_ _ _ _ _ _ money on Helen’s table?
A. There is some
B. There is any
C. Is it some
D. Is there any

Answer 1

Hint: We can use different types of sentences to express our feelings. Sentences that exhibit interrogative grammatical mood are known as interrogative sentences. These are the sentences that usually include ‘What’, ‘Why’, ‘When’ and ‘How’.

Complete answer:
1. Before moving on, let us first look at the question given to us. The question mark at the end along with the options given indicate that the answer to this question will be either a yes or a no.
2. In English, questions whose answers are either yes or no are known as closed or general questions. They have the following structure:
Auxiliary verb + subject + main verb +?
3. This makes option A and C incorrect because they don’t start with an auxiliary verb.
4. Now we are left with two options. In order to determine whether the answer is Option C or Option D, we must understand the difference between ‘any’ and ‘some.’
5. Both the words ‘any’ and ‘some’ are used when the quantity is not clearly known. However, the former is used in questions and negative sentences and the latter (some) is used for cases of offers and requests in positive and affirmative sentences. This makes option D, ‘is there any’ the appropriate answer for this question as it makes the sentence an interrogative question which can be answered with a brief ‘yes’ or ‘no’ only.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘D’

Note: Sentences that exhibit interrogative grammatical mood are known as Interrogative sentences. In some of these sentences, answers can be received as yes/no. For example, in the sentence, ‘Were you with your friend yesterday?’, the answer is expected to be a ‘yes’ or ‘no’.