Choose the sentences in which the underlined word is used correctly:
(A) The doctor said Arjun can play football again once his ankle heals.
(B) Meena could not bare the noise of the drilling next door.
(C) We stood in a long queue outside the railway ticket counter.
(D) The school bus drove passed our stop without slowing down.
(E) Dadi keeps her old letters in a steel trunk under the bed.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A), (C) and (E) only
(A) The doctor said Arjun can play football again once his ankle heals. — Correct.
- Heals means becomes healthy again after an injury.
(B) Meena could not bare the noise of the drilling next door. — Incorrect.
- Bare means not covered.
- The sentence needs bear, which means to put up with something unpleasant.
- Correct form: Meena could not bear the noise of the drilling next door.
(C) We stood in a long queue outside the railway ticket counter. — Correct.
- Queue means a line of people waiting for their turn.
(D) The school bus drove passed our stop without slowing down. — Incorrect.
- Passed is the past tense of the verb “pass”, and the sentence already has the verb “drove”.
- It needs past, which here means going by and beyond a place.
- Correct form: The school bus drove past our stop without slowing down.
(E) Dadi keeps her old letters in a steel trunk under the bed. — Correct.
- Steel means a strong, hard metal made from iron.