Direction: Select the most appropriate set of words from the given choices to fill in the blanks.
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Although it has been more than 50 years since Satyajit Ray made Pather Panchali, ___________ refuse to go away from the mind.
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- the haunting images
- its haunting images
- its haunted images
- the haunt of its images
Correct Option: B
The given statement is probably mentioning a 50-year old movie that was very moving, and the speaker is saying that (s) he hasn’t forgotten those horrifying images yet. Option (b) is correct, because ‘its’ makes the sentence more clear, as the pronoun ‘its’ refers to the movie and those images are described as ‘haunting’ which means that the images in the movie were disturbing and disquieting. Option (a) is wrong, because ‘the’ instead of ‘its’ makes the sentence ambiguous by not relating to the preceding clause. Option (c) is wrong, because the images were not ‘haunted’. ‘Haunted’ is used to describe something that is troubled, not what is troubling. Option (d) is wrong, because ‘haunt’ as a noun only means a frequently visited place.
The correct word is filled in the above given sentence :-
Although it has been more than 50 years since Satyajit Ray made Pather Panchali, its haunting images refuse to go away from the mind.
