Question

Select the most appropriate option to complete the sentence:

His father-in-law________him up as a businessman.

• A. made
• B. put
• C. built
• D. set

Answer 1

The correct option is D set

Phrasal verbs are formed with a verb and a preposition, or another element. They have a meaning different from the meaning of the individual words.

Option D: 'Set up' is a phrasal verb that means 'to make it possible for someone starting a business'. It is suitable for the given sentence: 'his father-in-law helps him start a business'.

Hence option D is correct.

Option A: 'Made up' means 'something that is invented or untrue'.

The word does not complete the sentence in meaning.

Option B: 'Put up' means 'to stay somewhere other than your home for a temporary amount of time'. This word does not provide the necessary meaning to the sentence.

Option C: 'Built up' means 'to talk about someone in a way to impress others by means of exaggeration'. This phrase does not form a sentence complete in meaning, and 'set up' is more suitable than this. 'Built up' makes the sentence unclear: it's not indicated in the sentence, what part about 'being a businessman' was 'exaggerated or built up'.

Hence options A, B and C are wrong.