Question

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point:
The painting is too beautiful to have been painted by a mediocre artist.
A. So beautiful
B. That beautiful
C. Very beautiful
D. NO CHANGE

Answer 1

Hint: Traditionally, adverbs are used as one of the components of speech. Modern linguists notice that "adverb" is seen to be used as a kind of category of "catch-all," used to identify terms with different kinds of syntactic conduct.

Complete answer:
A phrase or word that modifies a noun, adjective, other adverb, determiner, clause, preposition, or sentence is an adverb. Typically, adverbs convey the manner, location, time, frequency, degree, degree of certainty, etc., answering questions like how? In what manner? when? where? and to what degree? The function which can be carried out by lone words (adverbs) or by adverbial phrases and adverbial clauses with multiple words is known as the adverbial function of the word. To make it more informative and meaningful, they add a description to the sentence.

The sentence given is a combination of two sentences that have been combined with the phrase 'too ... to' to form a simple sentence. 'Too' means 'more than enough' in the underlined expression, referring to the elegance of the painting, which is more than enough because it was painted by a mediocre artist.

The sentence has the proper 'too ... to' form, so the sentence given is right, option D is correct. This is a basic phrase containing the adverb 'too' that replaces 'too' with 'so...that' when it is translated to a complex form.

If we use option A, by inserting "that" followed by a negative clause, as in "so beautiful that it could not have been drawn by ..." the sentence will need to be changed a little more, and we are not allowed to change this sentence to complex, so option A is incorrect. As 'that' is not relevant here, option B is wrong, it means 'as much as that' which does not complete the sentence, since it conveys a positive meaning while the sentence has a negative tone. Similarly,'very' highlights the elegance of the picture, irrelevant to what the word says,'very' is a positive adverb, while 'too' has a negative meaning, as it relates to an abundance. Option C is also wrong.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘D’

Note: Grammar can be easy as well as tricky at times. To be perfect in grammar, you should be able to follow every rule of grammar.