Choose the grammatically correct sentences from the options given below:
(A) My uncle still carries the big old brown leather bag that he bought in Kanpur.
(B) No sooner had Papa paid for the new phone then he dropped it on the shop floor.
(C) The guest insisted to pay for the auto-rickshaw ride to the station.
(D) Each of these old coins in Dadaji’s tin box is worth more than a hundred rupees now.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A) and (D) only
(A) My uncle still carries the big old brown leather bag that he bought in Kanpur. — Correct.
- Adjectives before a noun follow this order: size, age, colour, material.
- Here the order is size (big), age (old), colour (brown) and material (leather), so it is right.
(B) No sooner had Papa paid for the new phone then he dropped it on the shop floor. — Incorrect.
- The given sentence says “No sooner had ... then”.
- “No sooner” is always followed by “than”, never “then”.
- Correct form: No sooner had Papa paid for the new phone than he dropped it on the shop floor.
(C) The guest insisted to pay for the auto-rickshaw ride to the station. — Incorrect.
- The given sentence says “insisted to pay”.
- “Insist” takes “on” + the -ing form of the verb.
- Correct form: The guest insisted on paying for the auto-rickshaw ride to the station.
(D) Each of these old coins in Dadaji’s tin box is worth more than a hundred rupees now. — Correct.
- In “each of” + a plural noun, the subject is “each”, which is singular.
- So the verb is singular: “is”.