Choose the correct form of the adjective to fill in the blank:
Of the two photocopy shops near the college gate, Lucky Prints is the ______, so most students queue up there.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → cheaper
An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun, for example a tall tree, the food is tasty.
Complete sentence: Of the two photocopy shops near the college gate, Lucky Prints is the cheaper, so most students queue up there. The sentence begins with “Of the two photocopy shops”, so only two shops are compared.
| Option | What it tells | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) cheaper (answer) | “the” + the comparative, the form that compares two, when one thing is picked out of only two | Of the two bags, the blue one is the cheaper. |
| (2) cheapest | the superlative: picks out one from a group of three or more, not from two | Of all the seats in the stadium, these are the cheapest. |
| (3) more cheaper | a double comparative: “cheaper” already means “more cheap”, so “more” cannot be added to it | – |
| (4) cheap | the positive degree, the plain form; it does not compare, so it cannot pick one out of two | Vegetables are cheap at the Sunday market. |