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Choose the grammatically correct sentence from the following:

A. When the scuba diver swam deep into the water, it hit him hard that the coral reef was near wiped out.

B. When the scuba diver swam deep into the water, it hit him hard that the coral reef was nearly wiped out.

C. When the scuba diver swam deeply into the water, it hit him hard that the coral reef were near wiped out.

D. When the scuba diver swam deep into the water, it hit him hardly that the coral reef was nearly wiped out.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 2

Sentence B is correct: 'swam deep' uses the flat adverb 'deep' for physical depth, 'hit him hard' uses 'hard' (since 'hardly' means scarcely), and 'nearly wiped out' correctly uses the adverb 'nearly'. A uses 'near' instead of 'nearly', C uses 'deeply' and plural 'were' wrongly, and D uses 'hardly'.

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