Discussion
Complete the passage with the most appropriate homophones :
As they moved forward, the wind began to ______ strongly, felling the sails and speeding up their journey. At sunset, the sailors took a moment to admire the golden ______ on the horizon.
Answer: D
The words are blow, scene.
The first blank follows 'began to', which takes the base form of the verb: 'the wind began to blow strongly'. The second blank is a thing the sailors admired on the horizon at sunset: a golden scene, meaning a view.
Blew is the past tense and cannot follow 'to'. Blue is a colour, not a verb. Seen is the past participle of 'see' and cannot be the object of 'admire'. Only one option has both the base-form verb and the noun meaning a view.
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