2024 · Q44
Each of the following sentences has an underlined word. Read the sentence carefully and identify which word class the underlined word belongs to. Indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
What made you choose the **one** rather than the other?
EnglishWord Classes
- APronoun
- BVerb
- CNumber
- DAdverb
Explanation
The keyed answer treats ‘one’ in ‘choose the one rather than the other’ as a Number — the cardinal numeral picking out one of two alternatives, parallel to ‘the other’. On this reading ‘one’ functions as a numerical selector. Grammarians differ on whether substitute ‘one’ is a pronoun or a numeral, so the classification is genuinely contested. Key disputed: verify against the official UPSC key.