Superior to — Sentence Correction Aptitude Question
Superior to: Choose the correct sentence: Answer and worked solution on CodeKairo.
- Topic: Sentence Correction
- Section: Verbal Ability
- Difficulty: Medium
- Time target: 50 seconds
Question
Choose the correct sentence:
Options
- This model is superior than the old one.
- This model is superior to the old one.
- This model is more superior than the old one.
- This model is superior from the old one.
Show the answer and the worked solution
Correct answer: B. This model is superior to the old one.
Worked solution
- Superior, inferior, senior, junior and prior all take to.
- They are already comparative, so 'more superior' is wrong twice over.
Answer: This model is superior to the old one.
The idea
The Latin comparatives ending in -ior never take 'than' and never take 'more'. Remembering them as a family covers several exam questions.
Shortcut. Swap in 'better': 'better than the old one' becomes 'superior to the old one'. Superior already means better, so 'than' and 'more' both go and only 'superior to' survives.
Common trap. "This model is superior than the old one." — treating superior like an ordinary comparative such as better, which takes 'than'; the -ior words take 'to'.