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Sentence improvement — correct phrasal verb for the end of difficulties: choose 'blown over' (not 'blown out/up/away') in 'The cloud of misfortunes appears to have blown over.'

Difficulty: Easy

over
up
away
No improvement

Correct Answer: over

Explanation:

Given sentence
The cloud of misfortunes appears to have blown out.

Concept/Approach
The idiom describing a problem subsiding is blow over. 'Blow out' usually refers to extinguishing a flame or bursting a tyre; 'blow up' is to explode; 'blow away' is to carry off.

Correction
blown over

Final Answer
over

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