Question

In the following sentence, one word has been omitted. Pick the option that has the missing word along with the words that come before it and after it.

He was irritated that he asked one of his assistants to help me.

• A. was as irritated
• B. was very irritated
• C. was so irritated
• D. was too irritated

Answer 1

The correct option is C was so irritated

Here, the sentence hints that the degree or extent to which the subject or person was irritated was so much that he asked his assistant to help. The conjunction that indicates 'such a great extent' is 'so'. Option C) is the correct answer.

Option A) 'as' is incorrect because there is no comparison being made here. Option B) 'was very irritated' is incorrect as it would need the conjunction 'and' to join the two parts of the sentence. Option D) 'was too irritated' needs to be followed by 'to' and so is the incorrect answer.