Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence: The ban was imposed by the commercial taxes department on Friday after protests by a certain community, which has threat to burn cinema halls screening the controversial movie.
had threatened to burn
This is a phrase-replacement question: the highlighted portion contains a grammatical error, and we must pick the option that corrects the verb form so the sentence reads idiomatically.
The original reads ... a certain community, which has threat to burn cinema halls ... Here has threat is wrong because threat is a noun, whereas the slot after the relative pronoun which needs a finite verb describing what the community did.
The correct verb is threaten. The idiomatic pattern is threaten to followed by a base (infinitive) verb — threaten to burn — meaning to warn that one will do the action.
Tense agreement matters too. The main clause uses the past forms was imposed and after protests, so the community's threat happened earlier; the past perfect had threatened correctly places it before the ban was imposed.
Putting these together yields had threatened to burn cinema halls, which is both grammatically sound and idiomatic.
The other options fail: had threats of burning reverts to a noun and changes the structure; had threaded to burn uses threaded (a different, wrong word); and had threatened to burning wrongly follows to with a gerund instead of the base verb.
Therefore the highlighted part should be replaced with had threatened to burn.
Similar Questions
Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to improve the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select 'No substitution.'
Your brother is after the age where he needs a babysitter.
Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to improve the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select 'No substitution.'
The village is further in the valley, nestled among the hills.
Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to improve the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select 'No substitution.'
She put on all his paintings in the attic.
Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to improve the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select ‘No substitution.’
We met at the restaurant at a long time.
Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to improve the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select ‘No substitution.’
He is married with a woman who works in the Navy.
Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to improve the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select 'No substitution.'
She remained calm by the procedure.
Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence:
Peter did not speak to no one in the room.
Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence :
As soon as Gita opened the umbrella, a scorpion fell about of it.
Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to improve the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select 'No substitution.'
The plane flew on the city, offering a great view.
Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to improve the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select 'No substitution.'
The company has done away for unnecessary paperwork by going completely digital.
Important Questions from Phrase Replacement
Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, No substitution required.
Not knowing the language and having no acquaintances in the city, he found it hard getting work.
Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
Gayatri informed one of the directors that she has sent the material for printing.
Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select option No substitution required.
We had been almost halfway there when the left rear tyre blew out
Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select option No substitution required.
The man spent a lot because he had so large amount of money.
- Select the word segment that substitutes (replaces) the bracketed word segment correctly and completes the sentence meaningfully. Select the option 'no correction required' if the sentence is correct as given.
In simple words ‘Welfare’ (mean a state of well being and happy.)
