Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option:
The rotis Sarla Mausi makes are ______ than the ones we get at the dhaba on the highway.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → thinner
An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun, for example a tall tree, the food is tasty.
Complete sentence: The rotis Sarla Mausi makes are thinner than the ones we get at the dhaba on the highway. “Than” shows that two kinds of rotis are compared.
| Option | What it tells | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) thiner | a wrong spelling: the “n” of “thin” must be doubled before -er | – |
| (2) thinnest | the superlative, the form that picks one out of three or more | Of all the pencils in the box, the red one is the thinnest. |
| (3) thinner (answer) | the comparative, the form that compares two; when a short adjective ends in one vowel and one consonant, like “thin”, the last letter is doubled before -er | My notebook is thinner than my brother’s. |
| (4) thinest | a wrong spelling of the superlative: the “n” must be doubled, as in “thinnest” | – |