Question

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option:
It is __ and __ to live here than there.
a) warm / most pleasant
b) warmer / pleasant
c) warmest / pleasanter
d) warmer / more pleasant
e) warm / more pleasant

Answer 1

Hint: An adjective is a word that expresses an attribute of something. The 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 have the correct comparative degrees of ‘warm’ and ‘pleasant’, as there are two places being compared.
Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question-
Option (a.), 'warm / most pleasant', refers to ‘warm’ which is a positive degree, and ‘most pleasant’ which is in the superlative degree. Therefore, option (a.) is incorrect.
Option (b.), ‘warmer / pleasant', refers to ‘warmer’ which is in the comparative degree, and ‘pleasant’ which is in the positive degree. Therefore, option (b.) is incorrect.
Option (c.), ‘warmest / pleasanter', refers to ‘warmest’ which is in a superlative degree, and ‘pleasanter’ which is a word that does not exist. Therefore, option (c.) is incorrect.
Option (d.), ‘warmer / more pleasant', is incorrect as it contains the comparative degrees of both the adjectives, ‘warm’ and ‘pleasant’.
Option (d.), ‘warm / more pleasant', refers to ‘warm’ which is a positive degree. Therefore, option (d.) is incorrect.

Note:
In this question, it will be helpful for the student to recall the concept of comparative degree. The comparative degree is the comparative form of an adjective or adverb. For example-
- `faster' is the comparative of the adjective `fast'
- `less famous' is the comparative degree of the adjective `famous'
- `more surely' is the comparative of the adverb `surely'.