Choose the sentences in which the adjectives are used correctly:
(A) Of all the boys in the hostel, Ajay is the laziest about making his bed.
(B) Kochi is one of the oldest port on the west coast of India.
(C) The decorations for our annual day were more colourful than the ones at the district fair.
(D) Our new cook is kinder than skilful, so the dal is often too salty.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A) and (C) only
An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun, for example a tall tree, the food is tasty.
(A) Of all the boys in the hostel, Ajay is the laziest about making his bed. — Correct.
- “Lazy” ends in a consonant followed by y.
- Before -est, this y changes to i, so the form is “laziest”.
(B) Kochi is one of the oldest port on the west coast of India. — Incorrect.
- “One of the” + a superlative picks one out of many.
- So the noun after “oldest” must be plural: ports, not port.
- Correct form: Kochi is one of the oldest ports on the west coast of India.
(C) The decorations for our annual day were more colourful than the ones at the district fair. — Correct.
- “Colourful” is a long adjective.
- Long adjectives make the comparative with “more”, not with -er.
(D) Our new cook is kinder than skilful, so the dal is often too salty. — Incorrect.
- The sentence sets two qualities of one person side by side: kind and skilful.
- In such a sentence the -er form is not used. We say “more kind than skilful”.
- Correct form: Our new cook is more kind than skilful, so the dal is often too salty.