Which of the alternatives below correctly and respectively c...

Sorry for the delayed response

01 Have ___ (1) e-mail you’ve been meaning (but not really) to reply to? Read below for some

02 reasons why your response has been delayed:

03 • I totally meant to respond to this earlier, but I didn’t know ___ (2) answer to your question

04 and I kept not caring enough to ask anyone. Now ___ (3) weird amount of time has passed,

05 so I’m going to loop Laura (cc’d) into this e-mail thread to see if she can handle this. Laura?

06 • Sorry for ___ (4) delay! I put off answering your e-mail until I had ___ (5) even more tedious

07 task that I wanted to avoid. Thanks!

08 • So sorry that I’m just getting to this now. There were six other people on this e-mail thread

09 and I was hoping that one of them would answer your question and I could just go on living

10 my life.

(Available at: https://www.instagram.com/p/CsHm2YnteFa/ – text especially adapted for this test).