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Direction: Select the most appropriate set of words from the given choices to fill in the blanks.

  1. The head ____ was annoyed to see a ____ in the soup. The option that would best fill the blanks in the above sentence would be:
    1. chief, house fly
    2. chef, housefly
    3. chief, house-fly
    4. chef, house fly
Correct Option: B

Sentence is about seeing a fly in a soup. This is major concern to a chef. Hence, options (a) and (c) are rejected. The word housefly is not hyphenated and a space in between house and fly changes the meanings of the sentence.
The correct word is filled in the above given sentence :-
The head chef was annoyed to see a housefly in the soup. The option that would best fill the blanks in the above sentence would be:



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