Question

Notas: 1(AFA - adapted) Read the text.

An elderly German decided to commit suicide. Took a lot of pills, tied a briefcase full of stones around his neck, rowed out into the middle of the Rhine and was found sound asleep in his boat.
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In the first sentence “An elderly German decided to commit suicide” the word elderly is used as

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a. the comparative form of the adjective old usually used
b. when we compare members of a family.
c. the comparative form of the adjective elder.
d. a synonym for eldest.
e. a more polite form for old.

Answer 1

e. a more polite form for old.