忙しかったので、私（　　　）母が子供をむかえに行ってくれた。

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BlackTom AI · Accepted Answer

のかわりに means "in place of" or "instead of," which exactly matches the situation where someone else performs an action because the speaker could not.

Relevant points:
- Nのかわりに indicates substitution: someone does something on behalf of someone else (私のかわりに母が…).
- のわけで expresses a reason/explanation ("because of ~"), not substitution.
- にとって marks perspective or evaluation ("for someone"), not an agent-substitute.
- ところに indicates a time/place context ("at the time/place when/where"), not substitution.

Step-by-step reasoning with each option substituted:
1) のかわりに: 忙しかったので、私のかわりに母が子供をむかえに行ってくれた。  
   Meaning: "Because I was busy, my mother went to pick up the child instead of me." This is grammatical and natural: the speaker was unable to go, so the mother acted in their place. The pattern Nのかわりに + [someone]が + action is standard for expressing substitution.

2) のわけで: 忙しかったので、私のわけで母が子供をむかえに行ってくれた。  
   This is ungrammatical here. のわけで means "because" or "the reason is," but the sentence already opens with 忙しかったので (because I was busy). Using のわけで would either be redundant or force a different structure (私のわけで would mean "because of me," which still doesn't express that the mother acted instead of the speaker).

3) にとって: 忙しかったので、私にとって母が子供をむかえに行ってくれた。  
   This would read "for me, my mother went to pick up the child," which is awkward and not the intended substitution meaning. にとって evaluates or indicates perspective, not that someone replaced you in an action.

4) ところに: 忙しかったので、私ところに母が子供をむかえに行ってくれた。  
   ところに would signal location/time (e.g., "at the moment/place when I was..."), and the resulting sentence is ungrammatical and fails to convey "instead of me."

Why the correct answer is correct: のかわりに directly encodes the idea "mother did it instead of me," matching both meaning and natural Japanese grammar. Final answer: のかわりに, which matches the provided correct answer.

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忙しかったので、私（ ）母が子供をむかえに行ってくれた。Single choice