Choose the sentences in which the adjectives are used correctly:
(A) Monday is always the busyest day at the village post office.
(B) The roads near the station get more and more crowded as Diwali comes closer.
(C) The rainfall in Cherrapunji is heavier than Jaipur.
(D) After the cleanliness drive, the lake near our colony looks much cleaner than it did last year.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (B) and (D) only
An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun, for example a tall tree, the food is tasty.
(A) Monday is always the busyest day at the village post office. — Incorrect.
- When an adjective ends in a consonant + y, the y changes to i before -est.
- So “busy” becomes “busiest”, not “busyest”.
- Correct form: Monday is always the busiest day at the village post office.
(B) The roads near the station get more and more crowded as Diwali comes closer. — Correct.
- A comparative repeated with “and” shows a steady change.
- A long adjective like “crowded” takes “more and more”.
(C) The rainfall in Cherrapunji is heavier than Jaipur. — Incorrect.
- The sentence compares rainfall with a city, which is wrong.
- We must compare like with like: the rainfall of one place with “that of” another.
- Correct form: The rainfall in Cherrapunji is heavier than that of Jaipur.
(D) After the cleanliness drive, the lake near our colony looks much cleaner than it did last year. — Correct.
- “Much” is used before a comparative to make it stronger.