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Adjectives Question 1:
What kind of a phrase is the underlined part of the sentence? The doll is not very attractive but she still wants to buy it.
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Adjectives Question 1 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is Adjective Phrase.
Key Points
- An adjective phrase is a group of words headed by an adjective that describes a noun or a pronoun.
- Example: Rimjhim is a very talented actress.
- The given example states the extent of the actress's talent.
- In the given sentence, the words very an adverb and attractive is an adjective.
- Here attractive is modifying the noun doll, and very is modifying the adjective attractive.
Hence, the correct choice is option 3.
Adjectives Question 2:
Identify the part of speech the underlined word belongs to.
There were many students in the class.
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Adjectives Question 2 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is Adjective
Key Points
- A word that qualifies a noun or pronoun in the sentence is an adjective.
- Example: The little girl is in her mother’s lap.
- The underlined word in the sentence qualifies the noun, so it is an adjective.
- Parts of Speech:
- The main parts of speech are noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction and interjection.
Let’s consider the parts of speech given in the options:
Parts of speech | Function | Example |
Noun | Naming people, places, things, feelings etc. | Dolly presented me with a new dress. It is her love for me. |
Verb | showing some action or state of being | I work for my family. Munnu is sleeping. |
Adjective | To qualify the noun or the pronoun in the sentence. | It is high time to make the relation. |
Preposition | To make the relationship of the noun or pronoun with the other words in the sentence. | The cat is sitting behind the curtain. |
- The word ‘many’ qualifies the students (the noun) in the sentence, so it is classified as an adjective.
Adjectives Question 3:
Choose the most appropriate answer and fill in the blanks.
The adjective form of 'Circumstance' is _________.
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Adjectives Question 3 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is Circumstantial.
Key Points
- Many English words can be used in more than one part of speech.
- Options 1, 3 and 4 are nouns.
- All these words mean the situations around something.
- Adjectives are formed by the use of some suffixes.
- Some examples are as under:
- Some examples are as under:
Suffix | Adjectives |
tial | confidential,circumstantial |
cal | biological, logical |
lar | tabular, angular |
- The word 'circumstantial' ends with 'tial'. It is the adjective form of circumstance.
- Thus the correct answer is circumstantial.
Adjectives Question 4:
Identify the underlined part of speech in the given sentence.
The weather is pleasant today, isn't it?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Adjectives Question 4 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. Adjective.
Explanation
- From the given options:
- The verb is a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence.
- An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes its referent.
- A conjunction is a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause.
- An adverb is a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc.
- From the given sentence:
- 'Is' acts as a verb.
- 'Pleasant' acts as an adjective.
- There is no conjunction in the sentence.
- 'Not' acts as an adverb in the given sentence.
- Hence, 'pleasant' is identified as an adjective in the given sentence.
- Adjectives and adverbs have important characteristics in common, in particular their gradability, and the fact that they have comparative and superlative forms.
- However, an important distinguishing feature is that adjectives modify nouns, either attributively or predicatively.
- The comparative 'better' and the superlative 'best', as well as some words denoting time intervals (daily, weekly, monthly), can also be adverbs or adjectives, depending on how they are used.
- We can see that many adverbs end in (-ly). More precisely, they are formed by adding (-ly) to an adjective.
Adjective | slow | quick | soft | sudden | gradual |
Adverb | slowly | quickly | softly | suddenly | gradually |
Adjectives Question 5:
Fill in the blank with the words given below.
She is as busy as a/an ________
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Adjectives Question 5 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is 'bee'.
Key Points
- This is a phrase where we say that someone who is very busy can be compared with a bee.
- 'mosquito' could be a potential answer but it is incorrect because the comparison is to be done with a bee only.
- 'lion' is used to depict 'braveness'.
- 'butterfly' is used to depict 'colourfulness'.
Correct answer: "She is as busy as a bee".
Adjectives Question 6:
Which of the followings would be the correct adjective of 'Benefit'?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Adjectives Question 6 Detailed Solution
- Option 2, Beneficent is an adjective form of verb "benefit"
- Beneficent means doing or producing good.
- Adding the following suffixes turns a verb into an adjective-
- SUFFIX/ -able, -ible, -ant, -ent, -ive, -ing,
- EG/ agreeable, flexible, pleasant, beneficent, progressive, caring.
Adjectives Question 7:
Comparative degree of 'Late' is _____________.
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Adjectives Question 7 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is: Later
Key Points
- Late is an adjective.
- It is a positive degree of the adjective.
- Its comparative degrees are Later.
- Its superlative degrees are Latest.
- Thus the correct answer is: Later.
Additional Information
- Positive and superlative degrees of late are used as under:
- Later: It is used as the opposite of earlier.
- Latter: It is used as opposite of former to indicate position or order.
- Latest: It is used as the opposite of earliest.
- Last: It is used as the opposite of first to indicate order or position.
Adjectives Question 8:
Direction: Adjective of 'Colour' is..........
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Adjectives Question 8 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is 'Colourful'.
Key Points
- Adjectives give us more information about people, places, animals and things.
- Some adjectives can be formed from nouns, verbs and even other adjectives by adding a prefix or a suffix.
- An adjective form of the word 'Colour' can be obtained by adding the suffix 'ful'.
- The suffix -ful usually means to have something
- Example: Hopeful, Joyful
- The suffix -ful usually means to have something
- So, the adjective form of 'Colour' is 'Colourful'.
- Therefore, the correct answer is 'Colourful'.
Additional Information
- Let us discuss adjective forms of some other words:
Word Adjective form Hope Hopeful Beauty Beautiful Wood Wooden
Adjectives Question 9:
Direction: Adjective of 'Obey' is _________
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Adjectives Question 9 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is 'Obedient'.
Key Points
- Adjectives give us more information about people, places, animals and things.
- Some adjectives can be formed from nouns, verbs and even other adjectives by adding a prefix or a suffix.
- Like, the suffix -ful usually means to have something
- Example: Hopeful, Joyful
- So, the adjective form of 'Obey' is 'Obedient'.
- Therefore, the correct answer is 'Obedient'.
Additional Information
- Let us discuss adjective forms of some other words:
Word | Adjective form |
Hope | Hopeful |
Beauty | Beautiful |
Wood | Wooden |
Trouble | Troublesome |
Adjectives Question 10:
Which of the following sentences has an adjective clause?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Adjectives Question 10 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is 'The store where the new phone was being sold had a huge line of people outside it.'
Key Points
- An adjective clause (also called a relative clause) is a dependent clause that modifies a noun or pronoun.
- It tells which one or what kind.
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An adjective clause generally begins with a relative pronoun (that, which, who, whom, whose) that connects the clause to the noun or pronoun it modifies.
- For eg.- The books that were borrowed from class must be returned.
- Of the given options only option 1 contains an adjective clause.
- Hence, option 1 i.e. 'The store where the new phone was being sold had a huge line of people outside it.' is the correct answer.
Additional Information
- You can shorten an adjective clause in two ways:
- Omit the subject pronoun and verb.
- Omit the subject pronoun and change the verb so it ends in -ing
- For eg.- Adjective Clause - The girl who is leading the parade is my best friend.
Adjective Phrase - The girl leading the parade is my best friend.
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- For eg.- Adjective Clause - The girl who is leading the parade is my best friend.