Instructions

In the following questions, a sentence/ part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold sentence/part of the sentence, which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case
no improvement is needed, your answer is No improvement.

Question 72

Both the teams played the game fairly.

Solution

The correct answer is option -B

Here,`fair' is an adjective which qualifies the noun `game'.

Usage of `fairly' is wrong here.

Fairly - is an adverb which will qualify verb `played'.

Since in sentence,`the game -noun is used.

To qualify that we will use adjective.

If we look at the context/meaning usage of Adjective `fair' is correct.

Ex- Both the teams played fairly.

Here it qualifies verb,so we use fairly (adverb)

Meaning-both the teams played in a fair manner.

Ex- Both the teams played a fair game.

Meaning -both the teams played a good,pure game.(no cheating,breaking of rules etc).


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