JAMB - English Language (1987 - No. 75)
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fills the gap(s):
Tonye said that he was going to bed because he was .... to do any more work.
Tonye said that he was going to bed because he was .... to do any more work.
tired out
very tired
too tired
extremely tired
Penjelasan
The sentence is:
"Tonye said that he was going to bed because he was .... to do any more work."
The word "too" is used instead of "very" because "too" implies an excessive degree of tiredness that prevents Tonye from doing any more work. On the other hand, "very" simply intensifies the adjective "tired" but does not necessarily suggest an inability or unwillingness to perform further actions.