Significant amounts of time

[Duy]

Test No. incompl/inter-79 "Online Marketing Campaign", question 10

An interactive website can save your organisation ......... amounts of time and money that would otherwise be spent on correspondence.

(a) signify
(b) significant
(c) significance
(d) signification

Test No. incompl/inter-79 "Online Marketing Campaign", answer 10

An interactive website can save your organisation significant amounts of time and money that would otherwise be spent on correspondence.

Correct answer: (b) significant

Your answer was: correct
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I just guessed this answer by my feeling. Is " amounts of time " a noun ? because significant is an adjective

[Alan]

Yes, this word is a noun and you are quite correct because you have chosen the only describing word or adjective.
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[Alan]

Please don't have headaches! I included the word signification in the test to complete the choice but it is rarely used and now is probably only used in legal documents and the like. My advice is to forget it and concentrate on significance, which means meaning or something of import. So when for example somebody does something unusual or different then you might well ask yourself: I wonder what the signifcance of that is - I wonder why they did that because it must mean something.

Hope this helps your headache go away.
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