Question

Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words given in brackets.
Malvika is the _____ girl in the class but she is as _____ as a two year old child. (Old, innocent)

a) Older, innocent
b) Old, more innocent
c) Oldest, innocent
d) Oldest, more innocent

Answer 1

Hint: We should always begin by counting the number of entities being talked about around each blank to be filled.

Complete answer:

In the questions where the blanks have to be filled with degrees of adjectives, it is mandatory for us to know the number of things being compared to each other. We know that Adjectives have three degrees of comparison, the Positive degree is used to give an affirmative statement, the comparative degree is used to draw a contrast between two people or things, and the superlative or the highest degree of comparison is used when multiple entities are compared.
In the first blank, the use of the definite article 'the' suggests we need to use the superlative degree of the adjective, so the answer will be 'oldest'. And with this explanation, we can eliminate the first two options as they do not have ‘oldest’ as an option.
Now, in the second blank, we see that the use of 'as...as' structure requires the use of a positive degree of adjective so the answer for the second blank is 'innocent’. And hence with these two alternatives, we have the correct answer as option c, because option d has the comparative degree of an adjective in the second blank.

Note: We must take care that although ‘class’ might be a singular word, it is a collective noun comprising many people.