Verbal Ability - Selecting Words - Discussion

It can't be cold because cold always signifies the extreme of cool (like hot for warm). Nobody can sleep in a "cold" shade. A cool wind blows, for instance, and not "cold".

It also can't be cooling because cooling is a verb. Here, the blank line signifies a word that would describe the word "shade". Like, an alert officer. Alert is an adjective. But, we won't say: an alerting officer, that's wrong. This is because alerting is a verb. "He is always alerting me" is the correct usage of alerting.

Similarly, "I am cooling the tea" and "I will drink a cool coffee" are more correct.

Yes, there is some adjectives that come in the -ing (gerund) form, like amazing, flaming, burning, etc. But cooling and warming are verbs.

The word "cooling" comes in 2nd half of the sentence. And it describes the phenomenon of an obj. So cooling is perfect,

First of all, the sentence will be "in the shade" instead of "under the shade".

Sentence is in past tense then how cooling?

How can be say cool? Explain now?

How can a shade be cool?

Please explain how cool?