From the words lettered A to D below each of the following sentences, choose the word or group of words as it…

The question appears to be cut off. The original WASSCE item is likely a reflexive pronoun question, such as "They told her that we would solve the problem __." The usual ending is "ourselves."

1. Analyze the question The sentence is: "They told her that we would solve the problem __." We need the reflexive pronoun that fits.

2. Explain the concept A reflexive (or emphatic) pronoun must agree with the noun or pronoun it refers to. The pronouns and their reflexive forms are:

• I → myself
• you → yourself/yourselves
• he → himself
• she → herself
• we → ourselves
• they → themselves

3. Solution

• The clause "that we would solve the problem" has the subject we.
• The one doing the solving is "we", so the reflexive pronoun must agree with "we". That gives ourselves, used for emphasis: "we would solve the problem ourselves", meaning without outside help.
• "herself" would refer to "her", but "her" is not the one solving the problem.
• "themselves" would refer to "they", who are only the ones speaking.
• "himself" has no matching male subject in the sentence.

So the sentence reads: "They told her that we would solve the problem ourselves."

4. Answer The correct option is D. ourselves.

5. Tip For reflexive pronoun questions, find the subject of the clause where the blank sits, then match its person and number. Ignore other nouns and pronouns in the sentence, because they are often distractors.

Note: since the question text was truncated, I assumed the blank comes at the end of the sentence. If your paper shows something different, send the full text and I will check it again.