SSC Selection Post 2025 PYQ — Question 70

Correct Answer

quickly decision (2)

Explanation

The error is located in part 2 of the sentence because it uses an adverb instead of an adjective.

The word decision is a noun. In English grammar, a noun must be modified by an adjective. The word quickly is an adverb (usually identified by its -ly ending), which is used to modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs, but never nouns.

To fix this error, the adverb quickly must be replaced with its adjective form, quick. The corrected sentence should read: "He made a quick decision without considering all the facts."

The other parts of the sentence are grammatically accurate:

Part 1 sets up the past tense action properly with the subject pronoun and the verb.

Part 3 correctly uses the preposition "without" followed by the gerund "considering."

Part 4 correctly rounds out the thought with a plural noun phrase.

Therefore, Option 2 is the correct choice containing the error.

Key Points

Paying attention to word pairings will help you catch modifier errors quickly on exams.

Use an adjective to describe a noun (for example, "a quick decision").

Use an adverb to describe an action verb (for example, "he decided quickly").