Academic Degree Degree Of Comparison: Grammar 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which adjective CANNOT form a comparative with '-er'?
- tall
- fast
- comfortable (Correct answer)
- cold
Correct answer: comfortable
'Comfortable' is a multi-syllable adjective and must use 'more comfortable', not 'comfortabler'.
Question 2: Identify the sentence that uses the superlative correctly in context.
- Between the two twins, Jake is the tallest.
- Among all students, Jake is the tallest. (Correct answer)
- Jake is tallest than all students.
- Jake is most tall of the two.
Correct answer: Among all students, Jake is the tallest.
Superlatives are used when comparing three or more items; 'among all students' signals more than two.
Question 3: What is wrong with 'She is more prettier than her sister'?
- 'more' should be 'most'
- It incorrectly doubles the comparative (Correct answer)
- 'than' should be 'as'
- Nothing is wrong
Correct answer: It incorrectly doubles the comparative
'Prettier' is already in the comparative form, so adding 'more' creates a double comparative error.
Question 4: Which sentence correctly compares two actions using adverbs?
- She runs more faster than him.
- She runs faster than him. (Correct answer)
- She runs the fastest than him.
- She runs fast more than him.
Correct answer: She runs faster than him.
'Faster' is the correct comparative adverb form of 'fast', used with 'than' to compare two actions.
Question 5: Which option is the correct comparative for 'little' when referring to size?
- less
- littler (Correct answer)
- lesser
- smallest
Correct answer: littler
When 'little' refers to physical size (not quantity), its comparative form is 'littler'.
Question 6: Choose the sentence that correctly uses a comparative with a noun.
- She has more patience as him.
- She has more patience than him. (Correct answer)
- She has most patience than him.
- She has patience more than him.
Correct answer: She has more patience than him.
Comparative structures with nouns use 'more + noun + than'.
Question 7: What does the structure 'less...than' express?
- Equality between two things
- The superlative degree of inferiority
- The comparative degree of inferiority (Correct answer)
- An absolute quality
Correct answer: The comparative degree of inferiority
'Less...than' is the comparative of inferiority, showing one thing has a lower degree of a quality than another.
Academic Degree Degree Of Comparison: Grammar 4
Which adjective CANNOT form a comparative with '-er'?