Question

Choose the option with the correct placement of the underlined word:
Siberian white tigers are rare to find, so they usually attract visitors to a zoo.
A. No change
B. White Siberian tigers are rare to find, so they usually attract visitors to a zoo.
C. Siberian tigers are rare to find white, so they usually attract visitors to a zoo.
D. Siberian tigers are rare to find, they usually attract white visitors to a zoo.

Answer 1

Hint: A sentence has been given with a word underlined. The placement of the underlined word is not correct and we have to find the sentence with the correct placement of the word from the options given.

Complete answer:
Option A) No change- It is an incorrect answer. In the given sentence, “Siberian tiger” is a noun and “white” is it’s adjective. So, the adjective should be placed before the noun. In the sentence “Siberian white tigers are rare to find, so they usually attract visitors to a zoo”, part of the noun (Siberian) comes before the adjective (white), hence it is incorrect.

Option B) White Siberian tigers are rare to find, so they usually attract visitors to a zoo. - It is the correct answer. In this sentence, the adjective (white) comes before the noun and the sentence has a meaning to it. Hence it is grammatically correct and makes sense.

Option C) Siberian tigers are rare to find white, so they usually attract visitors to a zoo. - It is an incorrect answer. In this sentence, the placement of the word “white’ does not make any sense and makes the sentence grammatically incorrect.

Option D) Siberian tigers are rare to find, they usually attract white visitors to a zoo. - It is an incorrect answer. Although the sentence is correct grammatically, the placement of the word “white” here changes the entire meaning of the sentence. We must understand that when we refer to “white” here, we want it to describe the tiger. On the other hand, in this sentence, “white” is placed before the noun- “visitors” which makes it an adjective for “visitors”. This implies a wrong meaning to the sentence and hence is not the right answer.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘B’.

Note: An adjective is a word that tells us more about a noun. It "describes" or "modifies" a noun (The big dog was hungry). In these examples, the adjective is in bold and the noun that it modifies is in italics. An adjective often comes BEFORE a noun- a green car.