Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. It is nothing else your pride which makes you say such a thing.

Correct — C. The segment has one fault: the set phrase is nothing else but, meaning nothing other than, and the printed sentence drops the but.

The verb is already right. The relative clause refers back to your pride, a singular noun, so makes stays makes.

Option (c) adds but and keeps makes: It is nothing else but your pride which makes you say such a thing.

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  else but your pride which make — This adds but and then breaks agreement. Your pride ... which make puts a plural verb under a singular subject.
• (b)
  else your pride that makes — The verb makes is right, but the option still drops but, and swapping which for that does nothing to fill the gap.
• (d)
  else your pride which make — This leaves but out and also changes the correct makes to make, adding an agreement fault the sentence did not have.

The options here vary two things, the missing but and the verb's number, so check each one against both.

The first is a fixed pairing. Nothing else but means nothing other than, and the but cannot be dropped.

The second is agreement. In It is X which makes ..., the relative pronoun takes its number from X. Pride is singular, so the verb stays makes.

Key facts

• Nothing else but means nothing other than, and else calls for but to complete it.
• A relative pronoun takes a singular or plural verb according to the noun it refers back to.
• In the cleft It is X which makes ..., the relative clause verb agrees with X, not with It.

Common traps

• Changing makes to make, which breaks an agreement the sentence already had right
• Assuming which must become that, when the fault is the missing but

No directly related past PYQ was found.