Question

Fill in the blank with a suitable personal pronoun from the options given below:
A duck can swim because ___ has webbed feet.

• A. They
• B. We
• C. It
• D. I

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

It

Pronouns are words that are used in place of nouns. There are 7 different types of pronouns. One of them is 'personal pronouns' which is used to refer to people such as he, she, him her, it etc. The personal pronoun 'it' is used for third-person or singular neuter pronoun. The given sentence refers to 'duck' whose gender is not specified and so the aptest personal noun to use is

Option A) They is a personal pronoun used in the second person for more than one person or plural cases.

Option B)'we' is a personal pronoun used in plural cases in the 1st person.

Option D) 'I' is a personal pronoun in the 1st person singular case.

Therefore, the options A, B, and D are incorrect in the given sentence.