Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option:
The hostel rooms in the new block are ______ the old block.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → bigger than those of
An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun, for example a tall tree, the food is tasty.
Comparing like with like:
When we compare, the two things must be of the same kind. Here the rooms in the new block are compared with the rooms in the old block, not with the block itself. To avoid saying “rooms” again, we use those of for a plural noun and that of for a singular one. “Rooms” is plural, so the blank takes “bigger than those of”. With “than” we use the comparative “bigger”, never the superlative “biggest”.
Complete sentence: The hostel rooms in the new block are bigger than those of the old block.