Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the highlighted segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution’.
The travelling gypsies wanted to display they’re skilful antics to the crowd.

Correct option is D

The correct substitution of the highlighted words is (d) their skilful antics.
Explanation: They’re is a contraction of “they are,” which is grammatically wrong before a noun. We need the possessive determiner their to show ownership of the noun phrase skilful antics.
Option (b) there indicates place/existence and does not show possession.
Option (c) dare is a verb/noun unrelated to possession.
Hence, their skilful antics correctly expresses that the antics belong to them.
Also, display is a transitive verb and needs a proper object, which the noun phrase their skilful antics supplies.
Grammatical rule used: Use possessive determiners (my, your, their, his, her, our, its) before nouns to show ownership.
Contractions like they’re (= they are) cannot function as determiners; there functions as an adverb or introductory/expletive there.
Example: They’re happy today. / Put the boxes there. / Their performance impressed everyone.