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

Hint: A pronoun is a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase.

Complete answer:

A personal pronoun is a pronoun expressing a distinction of person, for example, he, she, it, they.

In the given question, we have to find the correct personal pronoun for the noun ‘duck’. 

A duck is a small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs. 

Therefore, this means that the sentence is in the third person, which refers to pronouns and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of the language in which they occur.

Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question:

Option (a.), 'they', refers to a group of people or objects previously mentioned. It is used for plural nouns in the third person.

Therefore, option (a.) is incorrect as ‘duck’ is not a plural noun.

Option (b.), ‘we', refers to the plural form of you, including everyone being addressed.

Therefore, option (b.) is incorrect as the sentence is in the third person, and ‘you’ is in the second person.

Option (c.), ‘it', refers to the third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate entity of unknown gender.

Therefore, option (c.) is correct.

Option (d.), ‘I', refers to a personal pronoun in the first person singular case.

Therefore, option (d.) is incorrect as the sentence is in the third person and ‘I’ is in the first person.

Note: In this question, do not be confused about the duck being an animate object. Animate objects denote living beings. Also, keep in mind that ‘it’ is mostly the personal pronoun for an animal or an object.