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Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the highlighted segment in the given sentence. The students were boring by the lecture delive
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Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the highlighted segment in the given sentence.
The students were boring by the lecture delivered on environmental issues.

A.

The students were bores

B.

The students bored

C.

The students were barring

D.

The students were bored

Correct option is D

The most appropriate option that can substitute the highlighted segment in the given sentence is (d) the students were bored.
 "Boring" is an adjective, while "bored" is the past participle form of the verb "bore."
 In this context, you want to describe the state of the students, indicating that they found the lecture uninteresting or dull.
 Therefore, you need the past participle form "bored" to convey this meaning.

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