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(a) Although his speech / (b) was not very clearly everyone understood / (c) the underlying meaning. / (d) No error
Use 'clear' instead of 'clearly' because an adjective is required after the linking verb 'was'.
(a) He is the most / (b) intelligent and also / (c) the very talented student of the college. / (d) No error
Parallel structure is required here. It should be: 'He is the most intelligent and the most talented student'.
(a) The number of applications has risen / (b) this year by / (c) as many as 50%. / (d) No error.
(c) Use 'as much as' instead of 'as many as' before 50% (percentage/quantity), as 'many' is for countable items.
(a) He is the most / (b) intelligent and also / (c) the very talented student of the college. / (d) No error.
(c) Use 'most' instead of 'very'. When two adjectives are joined by a conjunction, they must be in the same degree. Hence, 'most intelligent' and 'most talented'.
(a) He is wiser / (b) enough to / (c) understand your trick / (d) No error.
(a) Use 'wise' instead of 'wiser'. 'Enough' is preceded by an adjective in its positive degree.
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(a) Krishna ran to the / (b) nearing grocery store to / (c) buy biscuits as his parents were expecting guests. / (d) No error
The correct usage is 'nearest' instead of 'nearing' because 'grocery store' is a specific location, and a superlative degree is required here.
(a) Ram is as good, / (b) if not better than / (c) they. / (d) No error
The correct structure is: 'Ram is as good as, if not better than, they'.
(a) Honest are / (b) rewarded / (c) sooner or later / (d) No error
To use an adjective as a noun, 'the' is necessary: 'The honest'.
(a) Having been found / (b) guilty of the theft / (c) Sunny was sentenced to five year's imprisonment. / (d) No error
Use 'five years'' instead of 'five year's'.
(a) He ran so fastly / (b) that he reached / (c) the destination in just two minutes. / (d) No error.
The word 'fast' is used both as an adjective and an adverb. There is no such word as 'Fastly' in English. The correct word is 'fast'.
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(a) Alms / (b) are given / (c) to the poors. / (d) No error.
The word 'poors' is incorrect. 'Poor' is an adjective, when used as a noun to refer to a class of people, it does not take 's'. Use 'the poor'.
(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
'Similarly' is an adverb, 'similar' (adjective) should be used here.
(a) Whole the chapter / (b) is full of printing errors which are the outcome / (c) of the proof reader's carelessness. / (d) No error.
(a) Use 'The whole chapter' instead of 'Whole the chapter'. The article 'the' is placed before 'whole'.
(a) You can trust / (b) this channel/ (c) for the last news of this hour. / (d) No error
Use 'latest' (most recent) instead of 'last' (final).
(a) While giving a loan/ (b) you must check / (c) if the borrower has sufficiently collateral to repay it. / (d) No error
'Sufficiently' is an adverb, whereas we need an adjective 'sufficient' to qualify the noun 'collateral'.
(a) Gopal felt happily / (b) to learn that I / (c) had got a job in the Bank. / (d) No error
Use the adjective 'happy' after the linking verb 'felt'.
(a) He ran so fastly / (b) that he reached / (c) the destination in just two minutes. / (d) No error.
(a) 'Fastly' is not a word. The correct term is 'fast', which functions as both an adjective and an adverb.
I cannot prepare tea for you. There is _____ milk in the refrigerator.
Little (when milk is in negligible quantity, tea cannot be prepared).
(a) He is comparatively / (b) weaker / (c) in maths / (d) No error.
(b) Use 'weak' instead of 'weaker'. 'Comparatively' is followed by the positive degree of the adjective.
(a) Having been found / (b) guilty of the theft / (c) Sunny was sentenced to five year's imprisonment. / (d) No error.
(c) A hyphenated adjective is always in the singular form. 'Five-year imprisonment' is the correct form.
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