Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option:
Actions speak ________ than words.
a) loudest
b) Less louder
c) Most loudest
d) louder
e) loudly

Answer 1

Hint: An adjective is a word that expresses an attribute of something. An adjective is the word class that qualifies nouns.

Complete answer:
In the given question, we have to find out which of the options given to us contain an adjective with a comparative degree, as two things are being compared here, ‘actions’, and ‘words’.
Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question-
Option (a.), 'loudest', refers to the superlative degree of ‘loud’.Therefore, option (a.) is incorrect as we need a comparative degree, and not superlative.
Option (b.), ‘less louder', refers to a phrase that is grammatically incorrect as ‘loud’ does not need the suffix er after it already has the adverb ‘less’ before it to form a comparative. Therefore, option (b.) is incorrect.
Option (c.), ‘most loudest', refers to a phrase that is grammatically incorrect as ‘loud’ does not need the suffix est after it already has the adverb ‘most’ before it to form a superlative.
Therefore, option (c.) is incorrect.
Option (d.), ‘louder', refers to the comparative form of the adjective ‘loud’.Therefore, option (d.) is correct.
Option (e.), ‘loudly', refers to an adverb which means ‘with relatively high volume’.Therefore, option (d.) is incorrect as we need a comparative.

Note:
 In this question, it will be helpful for the student to recall the concept of comparatives. A comparative is the comparative form of an adjective or adverb. For example- ‘faster' is the comparative of the adjective `fast'.