Question

Change the degree of comparison of the following sentence.
Modern bluegrass songs, telling of love and despair and celebrating mountain beauty, reflect the genre’s rural origins.
A) Modern bluegrass songs, telling of love and despair and celebrating mountain beauty.
B) Modern bluegrass songs through their telling of love and despair and celebrating mountain beauty.
C) Because modern bluegrass songs tell of love and despair and also celebrate modern mountain beauty. They,
D) With modern bluegrass songs that tell of love and despair and celebrate mountain beauty. They
E) Telling of love and despair, modern bluegrass songs celebrating mountain beauty, and they also

Answer 1

Hint: The sentence made ought to be grammatically correct. Ensure the word opted is acceptable for that specific sentence. Continually build meanings of the sentences then select the right one. Generate alternative solutions then evaluate and select an alternative after this implementation.

Complete answer:
A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes its referent is known as adjective.
Degree of comparison is a form of an adjective that indicates the different degree of the attribute. The adjective shows the positive , comparative and superlative forms. For example: The degree of comparison of good is good, better and best.
Here good is positive , better is comparative and best is superlative form.

‘Let us analyze the given options’:
Option A) Modern bluegrass songs, telling of love and despair and celebrating mountain beauty.:- This sentence is given in the question and it is correct because the underlined part of the sentence uses the correct verb forms and the punctuations. Hence, it is correct.
Option B) Modern bluegrass songs through their telling of love and despair and celebrating mountain beauty.:- This sentence is incorrect .
Option C) Because modern bluegrass songs tell of love and despair and also celebrating modern mountain beauty. They, :- This sentence is incorrect. It creates an illogical sentence starting with because.
Option D) With modern bluegrass songs that tell of love and despair and celebrate mountain beauty. They :- This sentence is incorrect / wrong as it is not clear for whom the pronoun they is used here.
Option E) Telling of love and despair, modern bluegrass songs celebrating mountain beauty, and they also :- This sentence is incorrect / wrong as it is not clear for whom the pronoun they is used here.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘B’.

Note: Some Basic rules:
-The Positive Degree of comparison offers no comparison.
-The Comparative Degree of comparison compares two things to show which has the lesser or greater degree of the quality.
-The Superlative Degree of comparison compares more than two things to show which has the least or greatest degree of the quality.