Choose the sentences in which the adjectives are used correctly:
(A) Kabir got offers from a bank in Pune and a start-up in Bengaluru, and he took the latter.
(B) At the bank, Mr Kulkarni is junior than his own nephew, who joined five years earlier.
(C) The new hockey coach is more strict than patient, so the boys rarely argue with him.
(D) Papa took out a five-hundred-rupees note to pay the plumber.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A) and (C) only
An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun, for example a tall tree, the food is tasty.
(A) Kabir got offers from a bank in Pune and a start-up in Bengaluru, and he took the latter. — Correct.
- “Latter” means the second of two things already named.
- Two offers are named here, so “the latter” is the start-up in Bengaluru.
(B) At the bank, Mr Kulkarni is junior than his own nephew, who joined five years earlier. — Incorrect.
- “Junior” already means lower in rank or younger.
- It is followed by “to”, not “than”.
- Correct form: At the bank, Mr Kulkarni is junior to his own nephew, who joined five years earlier.
(C) The new hockey coach is more strict than patient, so the boys rarely argue with him. — Correct.
- Here two qualities of the same person are compared: strict and patient.
- For such a comparison we use “more ... than”, not the -er form.
(D) Papa took out a five-hundred-rupees note to pay the plumber. — Incorrect.
- “Five-hundred-rupee” is a number joined to a noun. Together they describe the noun “note”.
- When a number and a noun describe another noun like this, the noun stays singular: rupee, not rupees.
- Correct form: Papa took out a five-hundred-rupee note to pay the plumber.