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SSC CHSL 2025 · PYQ · Sentence Improvement · medium

Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence: The ban was imposed by the commercial taxes department on Friday after protests by a certain community, which has threat to burn cinema halls screening the controversial movie.

  1. A.had threatened to burning
  2. B.had threats of burning
  3. C.had threaded to burn
  4. D.had threatened to burn✓ Correct

Explanation

'Had threatened to burn' is the grammatically correct phrase; 'threaten' takes a bare infinitive (to + base verb), and the past perfect is appropriate for the context.
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