Question

Identify the correct order of words:
I read the newspaper daily.
A) Daily the newspaper I read.
B) No change
C) The newspaper daily I read
D) I read daily the newspaper.

Answer 1

Hint: For framing a meaningful and grammatically correct sentence the subject and the verb should agree with one another in their tense. So, this is called subject – verb agreement. Here, if the subject is singular then the verb should be singular and if the subject is in the plural then the verb should also be in plural tense.

Complete answer:
Let us analyze the given options:
Option A) Daily the newspaper I read – is an incorrect answer because as per the basic rule of framing a sentence is not completely followed by this option. ‘Daily’ is the adverb of time which expresses the number of times the action happens and this has to be expressed at the end of the sentence. Thus, this wrong formation of the sentence and this is an incorrect answer.
Option B) No change – is the correct answer because ‘I read the newspaper daily’ is followed by a rule: Subject + verb + object (I + read + newspaper). So, no change is required in the sentence as it is already in the correct form. Thus, this is the correct answer.
Option C) The newspaper daily I read – is an incorrect formation of the sentence because as per the basic rule this option is an incorrect choice. The basic rule states Subject + verb + object (I + read + newspaper).
Option D) I read daily the newspaper – is an incorrect answer because I + read should be followed by an object rather than an adverb. And as explained above the adverb (with time reference) should come at the end of the sentence. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘B’.

Note: Framing any sentence, the basic rule is - Subject + verb + object. So, in the sentence - I read the newspaper daily ('I' is the subject, 'read' is the verb and 'newspaper' is the direct object). 'Daily' is the adverb and it expresses time in this sentence and also expresses an exact number of times the action happens and fits best at the end of a sentence.