Question

______ were the best days of my childhood. Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.
A. This
B. Those
C. That
D. None of the above

Answer 1

Hint: Word that is used in place of a noun is known as pronouns. Pronouns are the subpart of nouns. To avoid any repetition of the noun, pronouns are used. Pronouns are of different forms for the different ways we use them. Pronouns are he, she, they, it, whom, and so forth.

Complete answer:
Pronouns (such as each, few, he, she, I, herself, who, whoever, whose, that, they, etc) are used to avoid the repetition of nouns. for example in a sentence- Rakhi and Leena went to the market. Rakhi and Leena bought some apples. Rakhi and Leena returned home after 8 pm.

In the above sentences nouns 'Rakhi and Leena' are repeated. Hence to avoid this repetition we will use pronouns. On replacing the nouns with pronouns we will write it as:

Rakhi and Leena went to the market. They bought some apples. They home after 8 pm.
In the above sentence, the Proper noun 'Rakhi and Leena' is replaced by the pronoun 'they'.

In the given sentence, "______ were the best days of my childhood."
The correct pronoun will be option B. those. Hence it will be written as:
Those were the best days of my childhood.
The other options are incorrect. Let's look at the reason below:
Option A. This- Is used to refer to the object/person nearby to the speaker.
Option C. That- It is used as a pronoun to refer to the singular noun. The speaker mentions the 'days' that he is referring to. Hence we cannot use that.
Option D. is incorrect

Hence the correct answer is option ‘B’.

Note: Before using the pronouns we must look at the number with the nouns to which a pronoun refers. If a noun is in the singular form then we should use the singular pronoun. If the noun is in the plural form then we have to use the plural pronoun.