WAEC 2014 English Language · Question 30
Our tour of the tower came to an end all … soon.
Question
From the words or group of words lettered A to D, choose the word or group of words that best completes the sentence. Our tour of the tower came to an end all ....... soon.
- A.much
- B.rather
- C.too
- D.more
Answer: C. too
Explanation written with AI and checked against the answer key
Analyze the question: We need a word that fits the phrase "came to an end all ....... soon." This is a fixed expression in English.
Explain the concept: The idiom "all too + adjective/adverb" means "much more than is desirable; regrettably." For example:
- "The holidays ended all too soon."
- "It was all too easy to make a mistake."
It expresses that something happened sooner (or more easily) than one would have liked.
Step-by-step solution:
- A. much: "all much soon" is ungrammatical.
- B. rather: "all rather soon" is not a natural English phrase. "Rather" can modify "soon" by itself ("rather soon"), but it does not combine with "all."
- C. too: "all too soon" is the correct idiom. It fits the meaning perfectly: the tour ended sooner than the speakers wanted, which suggests they enjoyed it.
- D. more: "all more soon" makes no sense grammatically.
The correct sentence is: Our tour of the tower came to an end all too soon.
Tip: Memorize common "all too" collocations: all too soon, all too often, all too easy, all too well. In WASSCE and JAMB lexis-and-structure questions, idioms are tested often, so learning them as fixed chunks saves time.
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