Question

Fill in the blanks with most appropriate words-
Jim is not _______ a quick worker _______ you are.
a) Such/as
b) So/that
c) Such/that
d) More/than

Answer 1

Hint: Read the given phrase/sentence carefully. Try to make out the meaning of it and find the subject or the predicate or the main object of the sentence.

Complete answer:
The given sentence conveys that Jim is not a quick worker, but you are. A comparison is taking place. We have to fill in the two given blanks with the correct option among the four. All the options are comparative words.
Now, let us examine all the given options to find out the correct option -
Option ‘a’ is Such/as. It can be used as the correct answer. We can fill the given blanks with this option. These are also comparative words.
Option ‘b’ is So/that. It cannot be the correct option as we cannot use ‘so’ after ‘a’. It would be grammatically and logically incorrect. So, we will eliminate this option.
Option ‘c' is Such/that. It cannot be the correct answer as we cannot use ‘that’ in the second blank in this particular question.
Option ‘d’ is More/than. It cannot be the correct option as ‘more’ cannot be used before ‘a’, in the first blank.
As we have analysed all the given options, we can easily figure out the correct option. Here, the correct compound words to be filled in the blank are – such/as. Hence, option ‘a’ is the correct option.

Note:
All the other options are plausible distractions. We use ‘than’ while comparing and not ‘that’. That is used to point a thing out.