Question
We ____________ our friend's birthday and we ____________ how to make it up to him.
Official answer and solution
- Official answer
- C
- From
- Official GATE 2015 answer key
Solution
Identify the natural adverbial placement and standard idiomatic phrasing in English.
In English, the adverb 'completely' typically precedes the verb it modifies: 'completely forgot' is the natural, idiomatic order.
In the second blank, the fixed idiomatic expression expressing helplessness or lack of knowledge is 'just don't know' (meaning simply do not know), rather than 'don't just know' (which would unnaturally mean not merely knowing).
Combining both gives:
'We completely forgot our friend's birthday and we just don't know how to make it up to him.'
This corresponds to option C.
C
Selecting option D reverses the standard adverb-verb placement of 'completely forgot'.
The answer is the one in the official GATE answer key. The solution is this site's own explanation.
Source
- Paper
- GATE 2015 Computer Science and Information Technology (CS) Session 2
- Question
- 1 of 65, printed as GA Q.1
- Section
- General Aptitude
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