Question

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words.
If ____ can’t talk to Mark ____ don’t want to talk to ____.
(A) she/she/somebody
(B) he/he/anybody
(C) I/I/anyone
(D) they/they/it
(E) you/you/they

Answer 1

Hint: A verb is used to express an activity, state or occurrence of something. For example- Girls are singing. Pronouns are used in place of nouns. I, me, he, she, herself, you, it, that, they, who, whoever, etc. are pronouns. For example- She is dancing.

Complete answer:
The question is about a situation.
Option(A) ’she/she/somebody’ in the question second blank is followed by the verb ‘do’. So, the pronoun of the second blank must be first person or third person plural. Therefore, it is incorrect.
Option(B) ‘he/he/anybody’ same reason as mentioned for option(A). Therefore, Option(B) is also incorrect.
Option(E) ‘you/you/they’ as the reason mentioned for above option. Therefore, option(E) is also incorrect.
Now it is very clear that the third blank will require an indefinite pronoun to give a meaningful sentence as here an unknown person is being referred to.
Option(D) ‘they/they/it’ the third pronoun here is personal pronoun. Therefore, option(D) is also incorrect.
Option(C) ‘I/I/anyone’ the pronoun of the second blank is first person which is correct here and the third pronoun is an indefinite pronoun. Therefore, option(C) is correct.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘C’.

Note: A verb is used to express an activity, state or occurrence of something. For example- Girls are singing. Pronouns are used in place of nouns. I, me, he, she, herself, you, it, that, they, who, whoever etc. are pronouns. For example- She is dancing. In the above question the second blank required a first or third person and the third blank required a indefinite pronoun.