Directions : Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow…
2023
Directions : Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate option.
Reach Out! is an organization that runs week-long summer camps, designed to give young people the skills to be the leaders of the future. The camps help to create confident young people who wish to improve not only themselves, but the world around them. Varying in age from 12 to 17, young people come to attend the camps in Canada and the USA from across the world. They spend their time learning leadership skills, considering and discussing important issues such as pollution and health, and helping in the local community. They also meet many other people who have the same interests and beliefs and frequently make friendships that will last a lifetime.
There is no average day at the camp and changes are made to the timetable, which is handed out daily, to allow room for exciting events as they come up. However, camp members generally get up at 7:00 a.m. and, once they’ve eaten breakfast, start their day with outdoor games to get them warmed up for the busy day ahead. There are workshops in the morning on skills such as public speaking, and then there’s an hour for lunch at noon. For one hour in the afternoon, camp members have the opportunity to select from various activities that include dancing, yoga, basketball and song writing.
During the time at camp, there is a day known as Action Day. This is when small groups go out with an adult group leader to work with organisations in the neighbourhood.... This can involve organisations dealing with housing, journalism, healthcare or the environment, to name just a few. Evenings are spent watching documentary films or listening to guest speakers. The aim is to encourage the young people to go out and make the world a better place.
Identify the underlined words (parts of speech) in the sentence given below :
They also meet many other people who have the same interests and beliefs.
- A.
adverb, noun
- B.
adverb, adjective
- C.
conjunction, verb
- D.
preposition, noun
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Correct answer: A
A word's part of speech is decided by its grammatical function in the sentence, not by its form alone. An adverb modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb, showing manner, degree, time, place, frequency, or addition. A noun names a person, place, thing, or concept, and typically serves as a subject or object.
In the given sentence, “also” sits right before the verb “meet” and adds the sense of an additional action — that modifying role makes it an adverb. “Interests” is the object of the verb “have” in “have the same interests”; it names something the people possess, which is the defining role of a noun. So the two underlined words function as adverb and noun.
“adverb, adjective” mislabels “interests” as an adjective, but it is not modifying any following noun — it stands as the object itself, which is a noun's role.
“conjunction, verb” mislabels “also” as a conjunction (a linking word like “and” or “but”), though it links nothing here — it only modifies “meet”; and it mislabels “interests” as a verb, though there is no subject performing that action — it is a plural noun following “the same.”
“preposition, noun” mislabels “also” as a preposition, but a preposition must introduce a noun phrase and show its relationship to another word (e.g. “with,” “of”); “also” introduces nothing — it only modifies “meet.”
So the underlined words are correctly identified as an adverb and a noun.