Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words. A place where fruit trees are grown

Correct — D. The stem fixes a place and says what grows there: fruit trees.

An orchard is precisely that — a piece of land planted with fruit trees and kept for its crop. The crop is written into the definition of the word.

That is what separates it from the near miss. A garden is defined by cultivation in general, while an orchard is defined by the fruit trees standing in it. Option (d).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Garden — A garden is ground cultivated for flowers, vegetables or lawn. Fruit trees may happen to stand in one, but the word does not require them.
• (b)
  Museum — A museum houses objects of historical, scientific or artistic interest. It is a building for exhibits, with no growing sense at all.
• (c)
  Quay — A quay is a solid landing stage beside water where ships are loaded and unloaded. It is a place, which is why it is offered, but the wrong kind of place.

English keeps a separate noun for a place defined by what is grown or kept in it, and SSC works straight through that list.

Orchard is fruit trees, vineyard is grapevines, nursery is young plants, aviary is birds, apiary is bees, granary is stored grain.

Learn them as pairs of place and contents. The stem then reduces to one question: what does this place hold?

Key facts

• An orchard is a piece of land planted with fruit trees.
• A vineyard is land planted with grapevines.
• An aviary is a large enclosure where birds are kept, keyed at 12 Sep 2024, 16:00, English Q.2.
• A quay is a landing place beside water where ships load and unload.

Common traps

• Settling for Garden because the stem says trees are grown and a garden grows things
• Reading Quay as a general word for a place because the other two are so clearly wrong

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