Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. Meera and Rahul live…
2025
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. Meera and Rahul live in a _______ house.
Answer: D. spacious — Concept: In an English noun phrase the slot between a determiner and its noun — a ___ house — is filled by a modifier, and the word class of that modifier…
- A.
spaciously
- B.
space
- C.
spacy
- D.
spacious
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Correct answer: D
Concept: In an English noun phrase the slot between a determiner and its noun — a ___ house — is filled by a modifier, and the word class of that modifier decides what it can express. When the sentence has to state a QUALITY of the noun, that modifier must be an adjective: an adverb cannot occupy the slot at all, and a noun placed there only builds a compound that names a type or field instead of describing the noun.
Application: The blank has to state a quality of the house, and the quality intended here is 'having plenty of room'. The noun 'space' takes the adjective-forming suffix -ous to give 'spacious', which carries exactly that sense, so the sentence reads: Meera and Rahul live in a spacious house.
Contrast the four forms built on the same root:
Form | Word class | Role in a sentence |
|---|---|---|
spaciously | adverb, suffix -ly | modifies a verb or an adjective, as in 'the flat is spaciously planned' |
space | noun | before another noun it forms a compound naming a type or field, as in 'space station' |
spacy | non-standard spelling of 'spacey', an informal adjective | describes a person as dazed or vague, as in 'he felt spacey after the flight' |
spacious | adjective, suffix -ous | states a quality of the place it modifies, as in 'a spacious hall' |
Cross-check: put each form back into the frame 'a ___ house'. 'a spaciously house' is ungrammatical, 'a space house' would name a kind of house rather than describe it, 'a spacy house' would call the building dazed, and 'a spacious house' states exactly the intended quality of plenty of room.