Spotting The Error Topic-Adjectives Part-II

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(a) Anurag is eclipsed by his wife, / (b) who is cleverer and / (c) amusing than
he is. /(d) No error
 degree of two adjectives must be SAME which are connected by conjunction.
SO add MORE before Amusing.

(a) The two first to arrive / (b) were the lucky recipients / (c) of a surprise
gift. /(d) No error
 Cardinal Adjectives>> One, two, three...
 Ordinal Adjectives>>First, Second, Third....
And THE Article comes before only CARDINALS.... So THE FIRST TWO.



 (a) Of the billions of stars in the galaxy, (b) how much are / (c) suitable for life? / (d)
No error
Since Stars are countable Noun...SO HOW MANY is suitable.


(a) A few word of / (b) gratitude are enough / (c) to express your / (d) feelings sincerely.
/ (e) No error.
A few is used with Plural countable nouns...So word>>words

(a) He feels his troubles / (b) as much or / (c) even more than they. / (d) No error
Correct Use is AS MUCH AS.

(a) I like reading / (b) more than / (c) to play games. / (d) No error
Like Reading...Play will also be in Gerund Form...So PLAYING.

(a) There is not many traffic / (b) along the street / (c) where I live. / (d) No error
Traffic Uncountable SO MUCH TRAFFIC.

(a) The police arrived and discovered / (b) a large number of hoarded sugar/ (c) in
his shop. / (d) No error 
SUGAR Uncountable So Use LARGE QUANTITY in place of LARGE NUMBER.

(a) As a dramatist / (b) Shaw is superior than / (c) any other twentieth century
writer. / (d) No error
With Superior We use TO Not THAN. Change THAN to TO.

(a) Of the two great cities/ (b) the former is / (c) biggest. / (d) No error
When we compare between two things then we use Comparative degree so BIGGEST>>THE BIGGER

 (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
Since here similarly is adverb . but here we need a adjective SIMILAR.

 (a) Everyone agrees that / (b) the Ganga is the holiest / (c) of all other rivers of
India. / (d) No error.
We do not use OTHER in superlative degree so here Remove other.

 (a) Krishna ran to the / (b) nearing grocery store to / (c) buy biscuits as his parents
were expecting guests. / (d) No error
Nearing is gerund form of near. Here we need Adjective SO NEARBY.

(a) While giving a loan/ (b) you must check / (c) if the borrower has sufficiently
collateral to repay it. / (d) No error
Similar here we need adjective so Sufficient Colateral.

(a) Although his speech / (b) was not very clearly everyone understood / (c) the
underlying meaning. / (d) No error
Here Clearly is Adverb and but we need adjective so ONLY CLEAR.

 (a) He is the most / (b) intelligent and also / (c) the very talented student of the
college. / (d) No error
When two adjectives are joined by conjuction then degree must be same.SO here THE MOST INTELLIGENT So use THE MOST TALENTED.

a) Having been found / (b) guilty of the theft / (c) Sunny was sentenced to five
year’s imprisonment. / (d) No error
Hyphenated Adjective must be singular SO FIVE YEAR  

a) The Railways have made / (b) crossing the tracks / (c) a punished offence. / (d)
No error
Here before OFFENCE we need adjective SO PUNISHABLE OFFENCE.

a) Alms / (b) are given / (c) to the poors. / (d) No error
THE POOR is correct since it is denoting a whole poor group.

(a) Lasers are / (b) indispensable tools / (c) for the delicate eyes surgery. / (d) No
error
Here EYES SURGERY....When noun plays a role of a adjective then it must be SINGULAR. SO EYE SURGERY.

(a) The number of applications has risen / (b) this year by / (c) as many as 50%. /
(d) No error
AS MANY AS 50%......It is incorrect
Use like this....MUCH 50%.

(a) Two lakh of people / (b) attended the meeting / (c) held in parade ground. / (d) No
error
 With definite numeral adjective we dont use OF. ex: TWO LAKH PEOPLE.
  and With indefinite numeral adjective we  use OF. ex: LAKHS OF PEOPLE.

(a) These sort of men / (b) attain success by hook or by crook / (c) so they do not
deserve any applause. (d) No error
Withe Adjective THESE plural noun is used. SO THESE SORTS.

a) Can you tell me how / (b) many eggs and / (c) milk he has brought / (d) No error
Eggs is countable So How Many is OK but MILK is uncountable to We will Use HOW MUCH before it. 

a) Whole the chapter / (b) is full of printing errors which are the outcome / (c) of
the proof reader’s carelessness. (d) No error
We Use before Whole not after it....correct use is THE WHOLE CHAPTER. 

(a) Her black long / (b) hair adds / (c) glamour to her looks. (d) No error
 HER LONG BLACK HAIR bcoz adjectives of size comes before adjectives of Colour.

(a) I trembled when I saw / (b) a sharp long knife / (c) in his hand. / (d) No error
LONG SHARP KNIFE. bcoz adjective of size comes before adjective of shape.

(a) I saw / (b) an anxious pale girl / (c) who was fidgetting near the ICU / (d) No error
A PALE ANXIOUS GIRL bcoz adjectives of emotions used before adjective of Colour.

(a) Mumbai is / (b) further from / (c) Delhi than / (d) Patna. (e) No error
 FARTHER>>FOR MORE DISTANCE
FURTHER>> MORE....So Here will be FARTHER

(a) This book is / (b) undoubtedly preferable than / (c) that and its printing / (d) is
also comparatively good. (e) No error
PREFERABLE  is used with TO NOT with THAN So PREFERABLE TO.

(a) You can trust / (b) this channel/ (c) for the last news of this hour. (d) No error
Use LATEST in place LAST.

(a) Everybody knows / (b) that Radha is the most unique / (c) singer of this college
/ (d) No error
UNIQUE is not used in Comparative dgrees and superlative degrees So Positive degree A UNIQUE.

a) The faster he completes / (b) the work given to / (c) him, the largest will be his
profit. / (d) No error.
(c) For paralllel increment or decrement We use Double Comparative Degree. So Use LARGER.

a) He does not have / (b) some money to buy a new machine so he is / (c) anxious
/ (d) No error
(b) SOME is used in Positive sense and
      ANY is used in Negative Sense.....SO Here ANY MONEY.

(a) This young lady is / (b) more beautiful but not so cultured / (c) as her sister. (d)
No error
In Comparative Degree we use THAN So here USE THAN AFTER MORE BEAUTIFUL.

(a) Now-a-days, / (b) the weather / (c) is getting cold and colder. / (d) No error

WHEN THERE IS GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT WE USE comparative degree.

so use COLDER AND COLDER.

(a) This photograph / (b) was comparatively better / (c) than that which he had kept
in his purse. / (d) No error
We don't use Camparative Degree with Words COMAPARATIVELY, RELATIVELY.
SO Here Use GOOD instead of BETTER.

(a) Ram is as good, / (b) if not better than / (c) they./ (d) No error
Use AS GOOD AS.

(a) Gopal felt happily / (b) to learn that I / (c) had got a job in the Bank./ (d) No error
 verbs of sensation (look, sum,appear, feel, smell, taste & sound)   After these words we dont use Adverb Since we use Adjective....SO Happily>>Happy

a) He is comparatively / (b) weaker / (c) in maths / (d) no error.
Weaker>>Weak.

(a) Many a / (b) boys are / (c) absent today / (d) no error.
MANY A+Singular Noun+Singular Verb.

 MANY A BOY IS

Many accidents TAKE place in this busy highway 


Many AN ACCIDENT TAKES place in this busy highway

(a) Honest are / (b) rewarded / (c) sooner or later / (d) no error.
 Honest is Adjective. It can work as a adjective only if we add THE before it.
So THE HONEST.

(a) My all / (b) friends will come / (c) tomorrow to meet me / (d) no error.
Use ALL MY instead of My all becoz MY POSSESIVE ADJECTIVES WHICH IS USED BEFORE NOUN.

(a) He is wiser / (b) enough to / (c) understand your trick / (d) no error.
We use positive degree Before Enough So ....HE IS WISE ENOUGH TO

(a) Ramayana is more / (b) sacred than / (c) all the mythologies of Hindus / (d) no
error.
(c) USE ALL OTHER MYTHOLOGIES...Becoz we need to exclude RAMAYAN.

a) He offered / (b) me a / (c) steamed cup of tea / (d) no error.
If there is MOMOS then STEAMED MOMOS is OK.
But Steamed Cup Of Tea is NOT CORRECT........SO STEAMING CUP OF TEA

(a) I will buy / (b) the book when / (c) the revise edition will come / (d) no error.
(c) REVISED EDITION.

(a) He ran so fastly / (b) that he reached / (c) the destination in just two minutes. /
(d) No error.
There is NO SPACE of  Word FASTLY in ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
we Use FAST when we require ADJECTIVE OR ADVERB,,

a) I am sure that / (b) all my monthly expenses / (c) would exceed the income if I do
not economise. / (d) No error.
Monthly Expenses already Includes all the expenses. So Do not use ALL.

(a) I am more lonelier/ (b) here than/ (c) I was in the USA./ (d) No error.
 We dont use two comparative Degree Simultaneously. So REMOVE MORE 

(a) To me it appears that/ (b) Anthropology is the more interesting/ (c) of all the
subjects./ (d) No error.
REMOVE MORE.....SUPERLATIVE DEGREE WILL BE USED SO THE MOST INTERESTING.  

 a) The circulation of The Statesman/ (b) is greater than/ (c) that of any newspaper/
(d) No error.
We have to exclude Statesman from All news papers So ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER.  

(a) In the garden/ (b) were the more beautiful flowers/ (c) and silver bells./ (d) No error.
Use MOST in place of MORE. 

(a) In his old age,/ (b) a person is likely to get/ (c) more weak day by day./ (d) No error.
  MORE WEAK>>MORE WEAKER