Instructions

Directions : In the following questions, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold part at a, b and c which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed your answer is d.

Question 178

When the beverage was ready, they drank possibly as much as they could.

Solution

The correct answer is option number -A

The sentence implies here that when the beverages was ready they drank as much as possible.

Possibly -It is used to say that somebody will do /has done as much as they can in order to make something happen.

Possibly here qualifies `as much as'

As much as -is also an adverb denoting frequency.

So correct order is 

As much as possibly they could.


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