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51. She owns a __________ leather jacket.
  • B. black old stylish
  • C. old stylish black
  • D. stylish black old
  • A. stylish old black
Answer: The correct adjective order is Opinion ('stylish'), Age ('old'), Color ('black'), and then Material ('leather').
52. I have no __________ reason to doubt him.
  • A. far
  • B. farther
  • D. furthest
  • C. further
Answer: 'Further' means 'additional' or 'more'. 'Farther' refers to physical distance. Here, 'further' correctly means 'additional reason'.
53. What is the __________ news from the capital?
  • C. later
  • D. latest
  • A. last
  • B. late
Answer: 'Latest' refers to the most recent in time. 'Last' refers to the final one in a sequence.
54. The __________ man in the village is over a hundred years old.
  • B. older
  • A. elder
  • C. eldest
  • D. oldest
Answer: 'Oldest' is used to refer to the greatest age among people or things in general. 'Eldest' is typically reserved for comparing ages within a family.
55. The patient's condition is getting __________ day by day.
  • D. worst and worst
  • C. badder and badder
  • A. bad and bad
  • B. worse and worse
Answer: To show a continuous change, a repeated comparative adjective (comparative + and + comparative) is used. 'Worse' is the comparative of 'bad'.
56. He is __________ to make such a silly mistake.
  • D. clever enough
  • A. clever too
  • B. too clever
  • C. very clever
Answer: The phrase 'too clever to...' means he is so clever that he would not make such a mistake. This structure implies a negative outcome.
57. Which of these is not a descriptive adjective?
  • B. tall
  • C. my
  • A. beautiful
  • D. red
Answer: 'Beautiful', 'tall', and 'red' describe qualities of a noun. 'My' is a possessive adjective, indicating ownership rather than a quality.
58. We had a __________ time at the picnic.
  • B. wonderful
  • A. wonder
  • C. wonderfully
  • D. wondered
Answer: The adjective 'wonderful' is needed to describe the noun 'time'.
59. The clown's performance was very __________.
  • A. amused
  • D. amusement
  • C. amuse
  • B. amusing
Answer: The performance caused amusement, so the '-ing' form, 'amusing', is used to describe it. People who watched it were 'amused'.
60. The instructions were not very __________.
  • A. clear
  • C. clarity
  • D. cleared
  • B. clearly
Answer: After the linking verb 'were', an adjective is needed to describe the 'instructions'. 'Clear' is the adjective.