Question : Comprehension:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
Salvador Dali (1)________ a prominent Spanish surealist painter (2)______ in Figueres, Catalonia, on 11 May 1904. Dali's father was strict in the education of his children unlike (3)________ mother. Dali had a brother named Salvador (4)_____ was born nine months before him and died of gastroenteritis. When he was five, Dali was taken to his brother's grave and was told that he was his brother's (5)_______.
Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank No. 4.
Option 1: whose
Option 2: who
Option 3: whom
Option 4: that
Correct Answer: who
Solution : The correct choice is the second option .
Who acts as a subjective pronoun, which is used to refer to a person. In this case, it is correctly used as a relative pronoun, as it functions as the subject of a relative clause, introducing additional information about the subject of the sentence. The other options are incorrect, as whom serves as an object of a verb or a preposition, whereas whose is the possessive form of the pronoun.
Therefore, the complete sentence is: "Dali had a brother named Salvador who was born nine months before him and died of gastroenteritis."
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