Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
He doesn’t care. He will watch ______ on the television!
A) Somewhere
B) Something
C) Anything
D) Anybody

Answer 1

Hint: A sentence can be divided into two parts, i.e. a subject and a predicate. The subject is the noun, pronoun or noun phrase that performs an action. The rest of the sentence is called the predicate. This predicate consists of all the other parts of speech, like direct, indirect, main and auxiliary verbs, direct and indirect objects, prepositions, etc.

Complete answer:
The sentence given in the question has a subject ‘he’, the verb ‘will watch’, the preposition ‘on’, an indirect object ‘the television’, but it does not have a direct object. Therefore, the blank can be filled with a noun or a pronoun in order for it to be an object.

Let us analyze the given options:
Option A) Somewhere – This word may be used as an adverb, meaning ‘in or to a place’; or as a pronoun for some unspecified place. For e.g. He left it somewhere in the park. It does not make sense when used in the blank given in the question. Therefore, this option is wrong.
Option B) Something – This word refers to an unknown or an unspecified thing or object. The first sentence in the question is “He doesn’t care.” It means that the second sentence is conditionally dependent on the first. Therefore, though the sentence “He will watch something on the television” is grammatically correct in itself, it is not appropriate in context to the opening sentence.
Option C) Anything – This option again refers to an unknown or unspecific thing or object but it also adds the condition “no matter what”. As the first sentence is “He doesn’t care”, it gives the same effect as “no matter what”. Therefore, this option is appropriate for filling the blank given in the question. Thus, this is the correct option.
Option D) Anybody – It refers to an unknown or an unspecified person, in other words, ‘anyone’. This option does not have any relevance to the statements given in the question. Therefore, this option is incorrect.

Thus, the correct answer is Option (C) i.e, He will watch anything on the television.

Note: In the sentence given in the question, we say that the television is an indirect object and the blank or ‘anything’ is the direct object. This is because a direct action of watching is being done on ‘anything’. Television is the medium and even if we remove the medium from the sentence, it will still be meaningful. If we remove the direct object, the sentence will become abrupt.