Fill in the Blanks

Sentence Skills intermediate medium

Choosing the correct word for a gap in a sentence.

Sentence Skills — Detection, correction, rearrangement and translation.

Rules

1. Read the whole sentence before choosing. 2. Decide what part of speech is missing. 3. Check grammar constraints: singular/plural, tense, preposition. 4. Check meaning and collocation. 5. Eliminate options that break grammar first, then choose by meaning.

Explanation

Fill-in-the-blank tests both grammar and vocabulary. Grammar rules narrow the options; meaning picks the winner.

हिंदी में

Fill in the blanks में वाक्य में खाली जगह के लिए सही शब्द चुनना होता है — पहले grammar, फिर अर्थ देखें।

Examples

Practice Questions

Q1. Fill in the blank: "The room ___ (clean) by the maid every day."

Answer: is cleaned

💡 Passive present → is + past participle.

Q2. Fill in the blank: "If it ___ (rain), we will stay home."

Answer: rains

💡 First conditional: if + present.

Q3. Fill in the blank: "They ___ (play) since morning."

Answer: have been playing

💡 Since morning + continuing → present perfect continuous.

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Related Topics in Sentence Skills

TopicLevelWhat it covers
Word RearrangementelementaryArrange jumbled words into a correct sentence.
Error Detectionupper_intermediateFinding the part of a sentence that contains a grammar error.
Sentence Correctionupper_intermediateRewriting an incorrect sentence correctly.
Sentence Improvementupper_intermediateChoosing the best way to say something.
Sentence Rearrangementupper_intermediatePutting jumbled sentences or words in the correct order.
Cloze Testupper_intermediateFilling multiple blanks in a short passage.

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