Choose the sentences in which the adjectives are used correctly:
(A) Kavita is taller than any other girls in her class.
(B) Of all the stalls at the Diwali mela, the bangle stall was the busiest.
(C) This year’s mangoes are inferior than last year’s.
(D) Rahul’s handwriting is as neat as his sister’s.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (B) and (D) only
An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun, for example a tall tree, the food is tasty.
(A) Kavita is taller than any other girls in her class. — Incorrect.
- After “than any other”, the noun is singular.
- Kavita is compared with each other girl, one at a time.
- Correct form: Kavita is taller than any other girl in her class.
(B) Of all the stalls at the Diwali mela, the bangle stall was the busiest. — Correct.
- “Of all the stalls” picks out one from many.
- So it takes the superlative, the form for three or more: “the busiest”.
(C) This year’s mangoes are inferior than last year’s. — Incorrect.
- “Inferior” already means lower in quality.
- It is followed by “to”, not “than”.
- Correct form: This year’s mangoes are inferior to last year’s.
(D) Rahul’s handwriting is as neat as his sister’s. — Correct.
- “As ... as” shows that two things are equal.
- So the adjective inside it stays in the plain form: “as neat as”.