Select the most appropriate option for blank No. 5.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each blank.

Trade on the New York Stock Exchange was (1) ______ to a standstill on an autumn day (2) ______ 1994. The culprit for the outage (3) ______ a squirrel that had chewed through a power line near the computer centre of the (4) ______ in Trumbull, Connecticut. The shutdown (5) ______ lasted for half an- hour, resulted in the NYSE operating at 85 percent capacity.

Select the most appropriate option for blank No. 5.

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Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is Option 2 i.e. which.

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‘Which’ is a relative pronoun used for inanimate objects or an event in context.

Hence, we will substitute the blank with ‘which’ as it fits in the blank grammatically as well as contextually.

‘Whom’ is the objective form of ‘who’.

‘What’ is a pronoun which is used in the context of ‘the thing that.’

‘Who’ is a relative pronoun used for a person in context.

SSC CHSL 2019 PYQ — Question 14