Question 1: Select the correct positive degree.
Gold is the most precious metal.
(A) No other metal is so precious as gold.
(B) Some other metal are more precious than gold.
(C) Gold is as precious as any other metal.
(D) Gold is a precious metal.
Question 2: Turn into superlative Degree.
No other metal is so useful as iron.
(A) Iron is one of the most useful metals.
(B) Iron is the most useful metal.
(C) Iron is the most useful than other metals.
(D) Iron is more useful than many other metals.
Question 3: Change the Degree:
Some poets are at least as great as Tennyson.
(A) Tennyson is not greater than some other poets.
(B) Tennyson is greater than any other poet.
(C) Tennyson is not as greater as some other poets.
(D) None
Question 4: Change Degree:
Rina is more intelligent than Tina.
(A) Tina is not so intelligent as Rina.
(B) Tina was not so intelligent as Rina.
(C) Rina is as intelligent as Tina.
(D) Rina is not so intelligent as Tina.
Question 5: Change the Degree:
‘He plays better than Rohan’.
(A) Rohan plays as well as he.
(B) Rohan does not play so well as he.
(C) He does not play so good as Rohan
(D) Rohan plays as good as he.
Question 6: Change the Degree:
Mohammad Rafi is one of the best singers of India.
(A) Mohammad Rafi is better than most other singers of India.
(B) No other singer of India is as good as Mohammad Rafi.
(C) No other singer of India is as better as Mohammad Rafi.
(D) Most of the singers were not as good as Mohammad Rafi.
Question 7: Change the Degree:
A foolish friend is worse than a wise enemy.
(A) A foolish friend is as bad as a wise enemy.
(B) A wise enemy is not so bad as a foolish friend.
(C) A wise enemy is as bad as a foolish friend.
(D) A foolish friend is not so bad as a wise enemy.
Question 8: Change the Degree:
A foolish friend is worse than a wise enemy.
(A) A foolish friend is as bad as a wise enemy.
(B) A wise enemy is not so bad as a foolish friend.
(C) A wise enemy is as bad as a foolish friend.
(D) A foolish friend is not so bad as a wise enemy.
Question 9: Very few languages in India are as sweet as Gujarati. This sentence is written in superlative as under:
(A) Gujarati is sweeter than many other languages in India.
(B) Gujarati is sweeter than most other languages in India.
(C) Gujarati is one of the sweetest languages in India.
(D) Gujarati is the sweetest of all languages in India.
Question 10: Change the degree:
Ashoka was one of the greatest kings.
(A) No other king was so great as Ashoka.
(B) Very few kings were as great as Ashoka.
(C) Ashoka was greater than any other king.
(D) Some other kings were as greater as Ashoka.
Question 11: Change the Degree:
Sleep is not less necessary than food.
(A) Sleep is at least as necessary as food.
(B) Sleep is more necessary than food.
(C) Food is less necessary as sleep.
(D) None
Question 12: Change the degree: “He plays better than Ravi.”
(A) Ravi plays as well as he.
(B) Ravi does not play so well as he.
(C) He does not play so good as Ravi.
(D) Ravi plays as good as he.
Question 13: Change the Degree in the following sentence.
“I am smarter than you.”
(A) I am more smart than you.
(B) You are less smart than me.
(C) You are not so smart as I.
(D) I am not so smart as you.
Question 14: Diamond is ________ than any other substance in the world.
(A) hard
(B) harder
(C) hardest
(D) most hard
Question 15: No one in the class is ________ intelligent as she is.
(A) more
(B) most
(C) as
(D) very
Question 16: Sachin did not play so ________ as Saurav did.
(A) well
(B) good
(C) better
(D) best
Question 17: A psychosis is a severe mental disorder, ________ than a neurosis.
(A) the most serious
(B) as serious
(C) more serious
(D) as though serious
Question 18: These boys are ________ good as those sitting under the tree.
(A) so
(B) that
(C) the
(D) as
Question 19: “Where is the ________ post office, please?”
(A) near
(B) more near
(C) nearest
(D) most near
Question 20: Kapildev was the ________ bowler in India.
(A) fast
(B) faster
(C) fastest
(D) fasten
Question 21: The plot of the novel was ________ it was completely incomprehensible.
(A) such complicated
(B) so complicated that
(C) much more complicated than
(D) more complicated
Question 22: Dr. Kent is the ________ option for a heart surgery in Mumbai.
(A) better
(B) best
(C) good
(D) worse
Question 23: English is today the third ________ native language worldwide.
(A) the more spoken
(B) much spoken
(C) the less spoken
(D) most spoken
Question 24: Fill in the blank selecting the appropriate option:
Jignesh is the ________ member of his family.
(A) oldest
(B) eldest
(C) older
(D) old
Question 25: Select the appropriate option and fill in the blank.
Lead is a ________ metal than any other metal.
(A) heavier
(B) more heavier
(C) heavy
(D) heaviest
Question 26: The situation here is ________ other areas.
(A) worst as
(B) worse than
(C) good as
(D) bad as
Question 27: India has now come through the ________ of the recession.
(A) good
(B) best
(C) bad
(D) worst
Question 28: Is ‘the Gita’ ________ selling of all the books of wisdom?
(A) the larger
(B) so large as
(C) the largest
(D) the large
Question 29: The currency note of Rs.500 now ________ exists.
(A) not
(B) does not
(C) no longer
(D) any longer
Question 30: Isn’t our civilization the ________ civilization?
(A) old
(B) older
(C) oldest
(D) most old
Question 31: Comparative degree form of ‘fore’:
(A) before
(B) forehead
(C) former
(D) forer
Question 32: No other musician was so great ________ Tansen.
(A) then
(B) so
(C) as
(D) than
Question 33: Fill in the blank:
Rama is ________ than prudent.
(A) as brave
(B) more brave
(C) braverer
(D) braver
Question 34: Change the degree:
He plays better than Rohan.
(A) Rohan plays as well as he.
(B) Rohan does not play so well as he.
(C) He does not play so good as Rohan.
(D) Rohan plays as good as he.
Question 35: Sir, this is the ________ price I can take.
(A) most little
(B) littlest
(C) little
(D) least
Question 36: Change into positive degree:
Brahmaputra is one of the biggest rivers in Asia.
(A) Very few rivers in Asia are so big as Bramhaputra.
(B) Bramhaputra is bigger than any other river in Asia.
(C) Baramhaputra is not so big as any other river in Asia.
(D) No other river in Asia is so big as Bramhaputra.
Question 37: Our armed forces are ________ those of any other country in the word.
(A) superior than
(B) superior to
(C) superior from
(D) superior than
Question 38: The electricity is ________ than coal.
(A) cheap
(B) to cheap
(C) cheaper
(D) cheapest
Question 39: Do you think David Beckham is ________ English football player?
(A) best
(B) as best
(C) better
(D) the best
Question 40: The more we look at the piece of modern art, ________.
(A) it look better
(B) the more we like it
(C) we like it less
(D) the less we like it.