Question

Choose the correct word to fill the blank. Two words at A and B are provided for choice. If either of the words can be chosen, choose C and if none of the words can be chosen, then choose D as your choice:

The ________ has gone to attend the meeting.

• A. Principle
• B. Principal
• C. Any one of these
• D. None of these

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

Homophones are words that have the same or similar pronunciations, but different meanings. 'Principle' and 'principal' are homophones.

Options A and B: 'Principal' is a head or director of a school or college.

'Principle' is an accepted or professed rule of action.

'Principal' is more relevant to the given sentence, as it completes it in meaning: a person going for a meeting.

Hence option B is correct and A is incorrect.

Options C and D are incorrect for the same: C cannot be correct because A is incorrect, and D cannot be correct because B is correct.