Fill in the blanks with an appropriate determiner.
1Even though ............... were born in Mumbai, neither of them speaks Marathi.
Wrong!
Use "both my children" because the sentence refers to two children together before saying neither speaks Marathi.
2He has three daughters, but ............... of them lives with him.
Wrong!
Use "none" to mean not one of three daughters.
3I visit my parents ............... Sunday.
Select 2 answers.
Wrong!
Use "each" or "every" with a singular day to mean repeatedly on Sundays.
4In this football game, ............... team has 11 players.
Wrong!
Use "each" before a singular noun when thinking about the teams separately.
5............... three girls are intelligent and hard-working.
Wrong!
Use "All" before "three girls" because there are more than two people.
6............... my father and my mother were there at my graduation ceremony.
Wrong!
Use "Both" before two joined nouns to say the two people were there.
7There was ............... room on the bus, so we got off.
Select 2 answers.
Wrong!
Use "no" or "not any" before "room" to mean zero available space.
8He hasn't got ............... a brother or a sister.
Wrong!
Use "either" after a negative verb in the pattern "not either... or".
9They were ............... rich nor poor.
Wrong!
Use "neither" with "nor" to mean not one and not the other.
10I gave her ............... food.
Wrong!
Use "some" in this affirmative sentence with the uncountable noun "food".
11The two answers are wrong, so ............... of these answers is correct.
Wrong!
Use "neither" to mean not one of the two answers is correct.
12............... them were there.
Wrong!
Use "Both of" before the object pronoun "them" to mean the two people were there.
Answers
- Even though both my children were born in Mumbai, neither of them speaks Marathi.
- He has three daughters, but none of them lives with him.
- I visit my parents each / every Sunday.
- In this football game, each team has 11 players.
- All three girls are intelligent and hard-working.
- Both my father and my mother were there at my graduation ceremony.
- There was no / not any room on the bus, so we got off.
- He hasn’t got either a brother or a sister.
- They were neither rich nor poor.
- I gave her some food.
- The two answers are wrong, so neither of these answers is correct.
- Both of them were there.