Question
His knowledge of the subject was excellent but his classroom performance was _______.
Official answer and solution
- Official answer
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- From
- Official GATE 2020 answer key
Solution
Use the contrastive conjunction 'but' to determine the required tone of the second clause.
The sentence links two clauses with the adversative conjunction 'but'. The first clause states a positive quality: 'knowledge of the subject was excellent'.
The second clause must present a contrasting negative quality. Among the choices ('extremely poor', 'good', 'desirable', 'praiseworthy'), only 'extremely poor' provides the negative contrast.
A
The answer is the one in the official GATE answer key. The solution is this site's own explanation.
Source
- Paper
- GATE 2020 Computer Science and Information Technology (CS)
- Question
- 2 of 65, printed as GA Q.2
- Section
- General Aptitude
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