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The chairman requested the aggrieved shareholders to _________________ him.

  • A.bare with
  • B.bore with
  • C.bear with
  • D.bare

Answer: C

The phrase is bear with: the chairman asked the shareholders to bear with him.

To bear with someone is to be patient with them, which fits a chairman facing aggrieved shareholders. Bear here is the verb meaning to tolerate or endure.

Bare means to uncover or expose, so 'bare with' and 'bare' are homophone errors. Bore is the past tense of bear (or a verb meaning to drill or to weary someone), and 'requested ... to bore with him' is ungrammatical after 'to', which needs the base form.

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