Choose the correct form of the adjective to fill in the blank:
Once the last wedding guest had left, the hall at Hosur was completely ______.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → empty
An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun, for example a tall tree, the food is tasty.
Complete sentence: Once the last wedding guest had left, the hall at Hosur was completely empty. “Completely” shows the full sense: no one at all was left in the hall. Nothing is compared with the hall.
| Option | What it tells | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) emptier | the comparative, the form that compares two; nothing is compared with the hall here | After the first stop, the bus was much emptier. |
| (2) the emptiest | the superlative: picks out one from a group of three or more, and there is no group here | Of the three classrooms, ours was the emptiest during the lunch break. |
| (3) empty (answer) | an absolute adjective, like full, round and complete: in its full sense it cannot go any higher, so it is not normally compared | By evening the water tank was empty. |
| (4) more empty | a comparative made with “more”; nothing is compared with the hall here | – |