Choose the suitable part of speech for the underlined word in the given sentence:
He knows me better than you.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Adverb
An adverb is a word that tells how, when, where or how much something happens. It can also describe an adjective or another adverb, for example she sings sweetly, very hot.
Better tells how well he knows, so it modifies the verb and is an adverb.
| Option | What it tells | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) Adjective | An adjective describes a noun or pronoun. "Better" here describes the action "knows", not a person or thing. | – |
| (2) Preposition | A preposition shows the relation of a noun to another word (in, on, with). "Better" has no noun after it as its object. | – |
| (3) Adverb (answer) | An adverb modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb. It tells how, when, where or how much. Better is the comparative of both good (adjective) and well (adverb):
| She sings better than her sister. |
| (4) Conjunction | A conjunction joins words or clauses (and, but, than). The joining word here is "than", not "better". | – |