SSC GD 2025 PYQ — Question 17

SSC GD Const 2025 (English) - 13 Feb 2025 - Shift 2 • English • Q17

The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain an error.
Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.
The trunk/ that she brought yesterday/ is not big much to lift.

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Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is option 1 i.e. “is not big much to lift.”

Error Concept: Incorrect word order and improper use of adverbs.

What is wrong: The phrase “big much” is grammatically incorrect.

Grammar Concept: To express insufficient degree, the correct structure is “not + adjective + enough.”

Incorrectness of the concept in context: “Big much” does not follow standard English grammar rules and sounds unnatural.

Correction: Replace “big much” with “big enough.”

Corrected phrase: is not big enough to lift

Final Sentence: The trunk that she brought yesterday is not big enough to lift.

Hence, the chosen option will be correct.