SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 11 September 2024, Shift 2 · English Comprehension · Question 11 of 100

Text as printed on a candidate's response sheet for this shift; answer per SSC's tentative key as marked on that sheet. Solution last reviewed 6 September 2026.

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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. Neither my brother nor my brothers-in-law / attended the meeting / as his health is not more good.

(a)No error
(b)as his health is not more good
(c)attended the meeting
(d)Neither my brother nor my brothers-in-law

Answer

Why

Correct — B. The trigger is more good.

Good is an irregular adjective. Its comparative is better, and English blocks more in front of an adjective that already owns a one-word comparative.

So the segment should read as his health is not better. The other two segments break no rule, which leaves option (b) as the part carrying the error.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
No error — No error would be right only if all three segments were sound. more good is not a possible comparative in standard English, so an error is present and must be marked.
(c)
attended the meeting — attended the meeting is clean. attended is the past simple, which takes the same form for singular and plural subjects, so no agreement question can arise in this segment.
(d)
Neither my brother nor my brothers-in-law — Neither my brother nor my brothers-in-law is correctly built. brothers-in-law is the standard plural of brother-in-law, with the -s on the head noun rather than the tail.

Concept

Spot-the-error items are decided segment by segment: a segment is wrong only if a rule breaks inside it.

The rule here is irregular comparison. Good, bad and little take no more or most — better and best, worse and worst, less and least.

A second rule sits in the same sentence and pulls the eye away from the real fault. With neither ... nor, the verb agrees with the subject nearer to it, which here is the plural brothers-in-law.

The pronoun his in the keyed segment is also loose, since the nearer subject is plural. It sits inside the same segment as more good, so the marking is unaffected and the comparative remains the fault the paper is after.

Key facts

As an adjective, good never takes more: the comparative is better and the superlative is best.
Brother-in-law pluralises as brothers-in-law, with the -s on the head noun.
With neither ... nor, the verb agrees with the subject nearer to it.

Study next

Irregular comparatives and superlatives: good, bad, far, littleSubject-verb agreement with either ... or and neither ... norPlurals of compound nouns such as passer-by and mother-in-law

Common traps

Marking the neither ... nor segment because the two subjects differ in number
Accepting more good because the sentence reads smoothly aloud
Marking No error when a single word inside a long segment is the fault

SSC splits the sentence into two to five labelled parts and asks which one carries the error, keeping No error live as an option. The 12 Sep 2024, 16:00 paper uses the same format at English Q.16, and 19 Sep 2024, 12:30 does it in three segments at English Q.9.

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