Adjective Test - 2

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.

Let's look at the meaning of all these words.

Interrogative adjectives are words similar to interrogative pronouns, but they can’t stand on their own.  In other words, they serve to modify another term, specifically a noun.  

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. 

Option A 'much' is used in negative and interrogative sentences. The given sentence is neither negative nor interrogative. Therefore it isn't correct.

The sentence mentions apples in plural. 

Option A is correct because it is used when the number of choices is unknown to the speaker, as in the given case. Option B is incorrect because it asks about a person, not a thing. Option C is incorrect because it asks about the possession of a noun by the person. Option D is incorrect because it asks about a person, and there isn't any person indicated here. 

'Trees' is a plural countable noun.

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.