Question

I felt ill on Saturday, but I felt _ _ _ _ _ on Sunday. Choose the correct option to fill the blank.
A. worse
B. badly
C. worst
D. none of the above

Answer 1

Hint:In linguistics, there are words which are used to name people, places, things etc. These words are nouns. But there are other words which are used to describe the appearance or the quality of these nouns. These words are known as adjectives. Now that we know what basically adjectives are, let us move on to the topic of ‘degree of comparison in adjective’.
For example, when we go to take a stroll in the garden, we notice that there are many trees of varying heights. If we want to compare them, we may say that “this tree is tall and the one next to it is taller”. The word ‘taller’ here refers to the fact that the second tree is more in height than the first. If we go ahead and complete the whole park, we may notice a tree with the biggest height. We may term it as the ‘tallest’ tree. The words tall, taller and tallest are the positive, comparative and superlative degrees of the adjective ‘tall’.

Complete answer:
1. The sentence given to us in the question expresses a comparison between how 'I' (a person) felt on Saturday and Sunday. The word 'ill' is an adjective which is shown in the first part. In the second part, the adjective ‘bad’ is used in different options of adjective comparisons.

2. Here we are going to check each option one by one so that we can detect the correct option containing the correct answer.

3. The first option ‘worse’ is the comparative (second degree) form of the ‘bad’. This clearly shows the difference of condition from ‘Saturday’.

4. The second option shows the adverb ‘badly’ which can’t be shown because the missing word should be an adjective. The option C shows the superlative form of the adjective. As being compared with the positive degree, we can’t address the superlative, but the comparative form is to be used.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘A’.

Note:Adjectives are words that describe the quality or the appearance of nouns. Some adjectives are ‘tall’, ‘slim’, ‘watery’, ‘juicy’ etc. It has been clear from our discussion that the comparative form is used in order to compare two things and superlative is used for more than two things.