Question

If an employee is no longer needed, he or she can be made _______.

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

A) resigned

B) redundant

C) employer

D) retiring

Answer 1

Hint:  An adjective is a word that expresses an attribute of something. An adjective is the word class that qualifies nouns. Here we need to find out the suitable options for the given sentence.

Complete answer:

In the given question, we have to find out which of the options given to us make sense in the given sentence such that the sentence is grammatically correct.

Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question:

Option (A), 'resigned', refers to leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily. Therefore, option (A) is incorrect because ‘resigned’ means a person who has already given ‘resignation’ and stated his intention to voluntarily leave a job or office.

Option (B), ‘redundant', refers to ‘more than is needed, desired, or required.’ Therefore, option (B) is correct as it perfectly describes the state of being no longer needed. Here it says that if an employee is no longer needed, then he or she can be made redundant.

Option (C), ‘employer', refers to a person or firm that employs workers. Therefore, option (C) is incorrect because ‘employer’ means someone who is giving people jobs in the company that is not suitable for the given sentence.

Option (D), ‘retiring', refers to a person who has held and relinquished a position or office. Therefore, option (D) is incorrect because the word ‘retiring’ means someone who would soon go into retirement as he/she has arrived at the age when he/she would leave his/her job and cease to work, that generally happens on reaching the normal age for leaving service.

Thus the correct answer is option ‘B’.

Note: The adjectival phrase can come before or after the subject of the sentence. The adjective in the sentence can be at the beginning, middle or end of the phrase. An adjective denotes a descriptive word that illustrates the noun used in a sentence.