Degrees of Comparison Exercises With Answers

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.

View Answer
(A) No other metal is so precious as gold.

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.

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(B) Iron is the most useful metal.

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

View Answer
(A) Tennyson is not greater than some other poets.

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.

View Answer
(A) Tina is not so intelligent as Rina.

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.

View Answer
(B) Rohan does not play so well 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.

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(A) Mohammad Rafi is better than most other singers of India.

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.

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(B) A wise enemy is not so bad as a foolish friend.

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.

View Answer
(B) A wise enemy is not so bad as a foolish friend.

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.

View Answer
(C) Gujarati is one of the sweetest 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.

View Answer
(B) Very few kings were as great 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

View Answer
(A) Sleep is at least as necessary as food.

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.

View Answer
(B) Ravi does not play so well 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.

View Answer
(C) You are not so smart as I.

Question 14: Diamond is ________ than any other substance in the world.

(A) hard

(B) harder

(C) hardest

(D) most hard

View Answer
(B) harder

Question 15: No one in the class is ________ intelligent as she is.

(A) more

(B) most

(C) as

(D) very

View Answer
(C) as

Question 16: Sachin did not play so ________ as Saurav did.

(A) well

(B) good

(C) better

(D) best

View Answer
(A) well 

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

View Answer
(C) more serious

Question 18: These boys are ________ good as those sitting under the tree.

(A) so

(B) that

(C) the

(D) as

View Answer
(D) as

Question 19: “Where is the ________ post office, please?”

(A) near

(B) more near

(C) nearest

(D) most near

View Answer
(C) nearest

Question 20: Kapildev was the ________ bowler in India.

(A) fast

(B) faster

(C) fastest

(D) fasten

View Answer
(C) fastest

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

View Answer
(B) so complicated that

Question 22: Dr. Kent is the ________ option for a heart surgery in Mumbai.

(A) better

(B) best

(C) good

(D) worse

View Answer
(B) best

Question 23: English is today the third ________ native language worldwide.

(A) the more spoken

(B) much spoken

(C) the less spoken

(D) most spoken

View Answer
(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

View Answer
(B) eldest

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

View Answer
Answer

Question 26: The situation here is ________ other areas.

(A) worst as

(B) worse than

(C) good as

(D) bad as

View Answer
(B) worse than

Question 27: India has now come through the ________ of the recession.

(A) good

(B) best

(C) bad

(D) worst

View Answer
(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

View Answer
(C) the largest

Question 29: The currency note of Rs.500 now ________ exists.

(A) not

(B) does not

(C) no longer

(D) any longer

View Answer
(C) no longer

Question 30: Isn’t our civilization the ________ civilization?

(A) old

(B) older

(C) oldest

(D) most old

View Answer
(C) oldest

Question 31: Comparative degree form of ‘fore’:

(A) before

(B) forehead

(C) former

(D) forer

View Answer
(C) former

Question 32: No other musician was so great ________ Tansen.

(A) then

(B) so

(C) as

(D) than

View Answer
(C) as

Question 33: Fill in the blank:

Rama is ________ than prudent.

(A) as brave

(B) more brave

(C) braverer

(D) braver

View Answer
(B) more brave 

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.

View Answer
(B) Rohan does not play so well as he.

Question 35: Sir, this is the ________ price I can take.

(A) most little

(B) littlest

(C) little

(D) least

View Answer
(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.

View Answer
(A) Very few rivers in Asia are 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

View Answer
(B) superior to

Question 38: The electricity is ________ than coal.

(A) cheap

(B) to cheap

(C) cheaper

(D) cheapest

View Answer
(C) cheaper

Question 39: Do you think David Beckham is ________ English football player?

(A) best

(B) as best

(C) better

(D) the best

View Answer
(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.

View Answer
(D) the less we like it.