Adjective Test 1

A sentence is of the comparative degree when a comparison is made between two people, and one person is of a higher degree in terms of quality.
A sentence is of the superlative degree when the noun is of the highest degree in terms of quality. Here, the comparison is between more than two people/things.
A sentence is of the positive degree when the nouns have equal qualities.
In the given sentence, a comparison is made between two people, the noun 'she' is of the higher quality 'taller' than her sister. Hence the sentence is in the comparative degree of comparison. Option B is correct because "taller" is a comparative adjective.
Option A is incorrect because tall in the positive degree.
Option C is incorrect because it's in the superlative degree, a superlative degree is used when there are more than two people/things compared.
Option D is incorrect because 'tallish' means 'rather tall', it does not represent any degree of comparison.

Option B is the correct answer because ‘better’ is the comparative adjective of good. Boys are not as good girls in knitting. Thus, option B is the right answer.

Option A is incorrect because ‘good’ is the adjective but as there is a comparison (than) between girls and boys, ‘good’ is not the right answer.

Option C is incorrect because ‘best’ is the superlative adjective so it is not the right answer.

Option D is incorrect because as there is a comparison (than),  ‘as good as’ is not the appropriate comparative adjective. So it is not the right answer.

The sentence is in the comparative degree when a comparison is made between two nouns, and when one noun (aunt) is higher in terms of quality than the other (uncle), the adjective of quality here being 'young'. The comparative form of 'young' is 'younger than'. Since we need to write the sentence in the comparative form, Option C is correct. Option A is incorrect because the phrase in it is of the positive degree. Option B is incorrect because the comparative 'more' is used to form comparative adjectives when the adjectives have more than two syllables, and 'young' has only one syllable. Option D is incorrect because the word is in the comparative form whereas the article is a superlative.

The sentence is about the noun 'boy' that is modified by the adjective of quality 'good'. A sentence is of a degree of comparison when there are two nouns in comparison. When the qualities of two nouns are the same, then the sentence is of the positive degree. When the quality of one noun is higher than that of the other, the sentence is of the comparative degree. When the quality of one noun is highest, compared to the quality of the others, then the sentence is of the superlative degree. Since the sentence does not have any comparison, as there's only one boy, Tim, and the adjective 'good' does not have a degree of comparison, option D is correct and Options A, B and C are incorrect.

In option A, 'have' denotes possession of assets by the plural noun 'men', hence it's grammatically correct and has no error. In option B a comparison is made between the assets of the men in America with the assets of the poorest countries, hence option B is grammatically correct and has no error. In option C the adjective 'combined' emphasizes on the overall assets of the poorest countries, it is grammatically correct and has no error. 'Of' is expressing the relation between one part (sixty poorest countries) and the whole world,it refers to the 60 countries that are a part of the world. Hence option D has no error, which leaves us with the correct option i.e., option E.

Option A - A positive degree has no comparison. For example, 'She is tall.' In the given sentence, we see the comparison between types of papers. Thus option A is incorrect.

A comparison is made between two nouns, 'cake' and 'one', where 'one' is the pronoun for 'cake'. The quality 'sweet' of both these cakes is equal, as the sentence is of the positive degree. The word (sweet) in the bracket is a positive adjective, the phrase required in such a sentence is 'as...as'. Hence option A is correct, as the phrase is of the positive degree of comparison. Option B is incorrect because 'sweeter than' is of the comparative degree and we require a positive degree. Option C is incorrect because 'the sweetest' is of the superlative degree of comparison. Option D is incorrect because the word alone shows no degree of comparison.

History is the study of past events, it's a noun itself and cannot describe the noun 'records' in the sentence. Similarly, a historian is a person who's an expert, or simply a student of history. Both these options are incorrect. The other two options: historical and historic can be confused as the other and often overlaps in meaning. 'Historical' is an adjective that refers to anything from the past whether it is important or not. Not all historical records are important. Option B is hence correct, because they are only providing information of Ashoka's reign (the importance of the event is not mentioned, so let's assume we are referring to all events: important and unimportant) Option D, historic means an event of or relic from the past that is of great importance. Since the records are not of great importance (it is nowhere mentioned that these events are of utmost importance), option D is incorrect. 

The statement is positive, because the nouns in comparison aren't different from each other in terms of height, they're the same, hence the option A is correct. Option B is incorrect because the comparative 'taller than' isn't used. Option C is incorrect because the superlative phrase 'the tallest' isn't in the sentence. Option D is incorrect because the degree of comparison of the statement is Positive.

The sentence should be in the comparative degree of comparison. When a comparison is made between a noun that is higher in quality compared to the other noun, then the sentence is of the comparative degree. Here, the comparison is made between 'Mary' who has more strength, 'stronger' than 'Ellen'. Option C is of the comparative degree; 'stronger' is the comparative of 'strong' and 'than' is the link between the nouns, hence it's the correct answer. Option A is incorrect because the word alone shows no degree of comparison. Option B is incorrect because its degree of comparison is positive (as strong as). Option D is incorrect because it's of the superlative degree (strongest).