Complete the sentence: It was __ hot to go out in the middle of the day.

Complete the sentence: It was __ hot to go out in the middle of the day.

• A. Too
• B. Very
• C. So
• D. Quite

Answer: (A)

This tests the pattern too + adjective + to + verb, which shows that something is excessively [adjective] and prevents the action that follows. Here, the heat is more than what’s tolerable, so going out in the middle of the day isn’t possible. “Too” sits directly before the adjective to signal this excess and resulting impossibility. The other options don’t fit the same way. “Very” simply intensifies the adjective but doesn’t inherently express that the action is blocked, so you’d need a different clause to show the consequence. “So” would require a result clause like “to go out” with a that-clause (it was so hot that we couldn’t go out). “Quite” isn’t the natural choice for conveying that something is preventing an action in this construction.

This tests the pattern too + adjective + to + verb, which shows that something is excessively [adjective] and prevents the action that follows. Here, the heat is more than what’s tolerable, so going out in the middle of the day isn’t possible. “Too” sits directly before the adjective to signal this excess and resulting impossibility.

The other options don’t fit the same way. “Very” simply intensifies the adjective but doesn’t inherently express that the action is blocked, so you’d need a different clause to show the consequence. “So” would require a result clause like “to go out” with a that-clause (it was so hot that we couldn’t go out). “Quite” isn’t the natural choice for conveying that something is preventing an action in this construction.