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Adjective Mock Test - 2
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1)(A) Krishna ran to the / (B) nearing grocery store to / (C) buy biscuits as his parents were expecting guests. / (D) No error
Ans- (b) Change ‘nearing’ into ‘nearby’ or ‘nearest’.
2)(A) While giving a loan/ (B) you must check / (C) if the borrower has sufficiently collateral to repay it. / (D) No error
Ans- (c) Sufficient (adjective) explains the quality of ‘collateral’ which is a noun. ‘Sufficiently’ is an adverb.
3)(A) Although his speech / (B) was not very clearly everyone understood / (C) the underlying meaning. / (D) No error
Ans- (b) ‘Clearly’ is an adverb, which qualifies a verb. Clear (adjective) explains the quality of speech (noun).
4)(A) He is the most / (B) intelligent and also / (C) the very talented student of the college. / (D) No error
Ans- (c) Change ‘very’ into’ most’. If two adjectives are joined by a conjunction, both the adjectives should be in the same degree. Hence use ‘most intelligent’ with ‘most talented’.
5)(A) Having been found / (B) guilty of the theft / (C) Sunny was sentenced to five year’s imprisonment. / (D) No error
Ans- (a) Hyphenated adjective is always in singular form. ‘Five-year imprisonment’ is the correct form.
6)(A) The Railways have made / (B) crossing the tracks / (C) a punished offence. / (D) No error
Ans- (c) ‘Punishable’ is the adjective form of ‘punish’.
7)(A) Alms / (B) are given / (C) to the poors. / (D) No error
Ans- (c) ‘The poor’ means ‘the deprived people’.
8)(A) Lasers are / (B) indispensable tools / (C) for the delicate eyes surgery. / (D) No error
Ans- (c) ‘Eyes' a noun acts as an adjective in ‘eyes surgery’ because here 'eyes' qualifies ‘surgery’. If a noun works as an adjective, it must be in singular form.Change ‘eyes’ into ‘eye’.
9)(A) The number of applications has risen / (B) this year by / (C) as many as 50%. / (D) No error
Ans- (c) ‘Much’ will come with 50% . Here a plural number is used as a singular unit.
10)(A) These sort of men / (B) attain success by hook or by crook / (C) so they do not deserve any applause
Ans- (a) ‘These’ is plural and hence will take ‘sorts’ and not ‘sort’.
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