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rajneesh

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why not they is used here?

Question:

DIRECTIONS: Read the following passage carefully and fill in the blanks by choosing appropriate words from the choice given at the end of the passage.

The British lived in India for nearly a hundred and fifty years but they remained foreigners, unlike all other foreign people who came to India before ___(a)___ took for themselves everything they____(b)____get from our land and____(c)____people, leaving the country in a____(d)____and more miserable condition than____(e)____had ever been before.

Select the correct option for ____(e)____.

Options:
A)

we

B)

they

C)

it

D)

this

Solution:

Ans: (c)

Pronoun 'It' will be used here as the subject for the verb 'had'.

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