Question

Fill in the blanks with the most suitable adjective or adverb:
My mother speaks French. Hence, I know French ______.
A. Perfectly
B. Perfect
C. Perfectness
D. Perfectfully

Answer 1

Hint:To fill in the blank with the suitable adjective or adverb, let us first discuss what they are. An adjective is a word that describes a noun. Example: Meeta is tall. (Here the noun is ‘Meeta’ and the adjective ‘tall’ describes her height). An adverb is a word that adds more information to a given verb. Example: She was talking loudly. (Here, the verb is ‘talking’ and the adverb ‘loudly’ adds the information that she was talking at a high pitch or tone). We will look for a word which describes a way the person knows ‘French’. Therefore, ‘know’ is the verb and we will find the adverb which describes this verb.

Complete answer:
Let us analyse each option individually to figure out the correct answer.

Perfectly : This is an adverb which describes how an action is occurring. ‘Perfectly’ means without any flaw, smoothly. Therefore, this suits the verb ‘know’ in the given sentence.

Perfect: The word ‘perfect’ is an adjective which gives a description about a noun. It means something which is flawless, smooth. Example: This is a perfect plan ! An adjective is not required to fill in the blank. Therefore, this is not the intended option.

Perfectness : The word ‘perfectness’ is a noun which means the act of being perfect or the quality of being performed. This is not required in the given sentence. Therefore, this is not the correct option.

Perfectfully: There is no such word as ‘perfectfully’. Therefore , this option is incorrect.

Hence, the correct answer is Option ‘A’.

Note: Observe the sentence carefully and figure out first, what you need to fill the blank. As described in the hint, we need an adverb here. After implying the concluded option, the sentence becomes “My mother speaks French. Hence I know French perfectly.” This sentence totally makes sense as it means since the speaker’s mother knows the language , he knows it well too. This makes it grammatically correct.