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Adjective Mock Test - 5
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1)(A) To me it appears that/ (B) Anthropology is the more interesting/ (C) of all the subjects./ (D) No error.
Ans- (b) Use superlative degree most.
2)(A) The circulation of The Statesman/ (B) is greater than/ (C) that of any newspaper/ (D) No error.
Ans- (c) Use ‘any other newspaper’. ‘Any newspaper includes ‘The Statesmen’.
3)(A) In the garden/ (B) were the more beautiful flowers/ (C) and silver bells./ (D) No error.
Ans- (b) Change ‘more’ into ‘most’.
4)(A) In his old age,/ (B) a person is likely to get/ (C) more weak day by day./ (D) No error
Ans- (c) Change ‘more weak’ into ‘weaker’.
5)(A) The two first to arrive / (B) were the lucky recipients / (C) of a surprise gift. /(D) No error
Ans- (a) ‘Two first’ should be converted to ‘first two’.
6)(A) He feels his troubles / (B) as much or / (C) even more than they. / (D) No error
Ans- (b) Correct use is ‘as much as’. If both positive and comparative degree of an adjective are used in a single sentence, both ‘as....as’ & ‘than’ will be used.
7)(A) The police arrived and discovered / (B) a large number of hoarded sugar/ (C) in his shop. / (D) No error
Ans- (b) ‘Sugar’ is an uncountable noun. Hence change ‘number’ into ‘quantity’
8)(A) As a dramatist / (B) Shaw is superior than / (C) any other twentieth century writer. / (D) No error
Ans- (b) ‘Superior’ is followed by ‘to’ and ‘not than’.
9)(A) A non banking financial company is a / (B) financial institution similarly to a bank / (C) but it cannot issue cheque books to customers. / (D) No error
Ans- (b) ‘Similarly’ is an adverb, that qualifies a verb. ‘Similar’ must come here because an adjective qualifies to qualify a noun.
10)(A) I am sure that / (B) all my monthly expenses / (C) would exceed the income if I do not economise. / (D) No error.
Ans- (b) Do not use ‘all’. ‘Monthly expenses’ includes ‘all the expenses’.
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