Adjectives — Test Set 3

(b) quickly — ‘Quickly’ is an adverb (describes how an action is done), not an adjective. The others describe nouns.

Distributive adjective — ‘Neither’ refers to each of the two options individually and separately.

False. ‘Elder’ is used only for members of the same family (e.g., my elder brother). ‘Older’ is used for general comparison of age (e.g., This building is older than that one). ‘Elder’ is never followed by ‘than’.

(b) She is the cleverest girl in class. — ‘Clever’ is a short adjective, so it takes ‘-est’ for the superlative. ‘Most cleverest’ and ‘more cleverer’ are double comparison errors.

attractive — formed by adding the suffix ‘-ive’ to the verb ‘attract’.

a beautiful old wooden table — The correct order is: opinion (beautiful) → age (old) → material (wooden) → noun (table).

Adjective of quality: Describes the kind, quality, or state of a noun. Example: She is a kind woman. (tells what kind of woman) [1 mark]
Adjective of quantity: Tells how much of a thing is meant. Example: There is enough water in the tank. (tells how much water) [1 mark]

(a) No other substance is as hard as diamond. (Positive degree uses ‘no other... as...as’) [1 mark]
(b) Kolkata is larger than most other cities in India. (Comparative uses ‘than most other’) [1 mark]

tired — attributive (comes before ‘farmer’) [½ mark]
happy — predicative (comes after the linking verb ‘felt’) [½ mark]
good — attributive (comes before ‘harvest’) [½ mark]
[½ mark for correctly identifying all three adjectives]

(a) glory → glorious: India has a glorious history of art and culture. [1 mark]
(b) enjoy → enjoyable: The school picnic to Bhopal was very enjoyable. [1 mark]

(a) The Yamuna is dirtier than the Ganga in many places. (short adjective: dirty → dirtier, change ‘y’ to ‘i’ + er) [1 mark]
(b) Among all the Mughal monuments, the Taj Mahal is the most magnificent. (long adjective: use ‘most’) [1 mark]

(a) These mangoes are sweeter than those. — ‘This’ is singular; ‘mangoes’ is plural, so use ‘These’ (demonstrative adjective must agree in number). [1 mark]
(b) He is senior to me in the office. — ‘Senior’ is a Latin comparative adjective; it takes ‘to’ instead of ‘than’. Same rule for junior, prior, inferior, superior. [1 mark]
(c) I have never seen a unique design. (Remove ‘more’) — ‘Unique’ is an absolute adjective meaning ‘one of a kind’; it cannot have degrees of comparison. [1 mark]

(a) She bought a long red silk dress. (size → colour → material) [1 mark]
(b) He lives in a large old stone house. (size → age → material) [1 mark]
(c) We saw a beautiful tiny yellow bird. (opinion → size → colour) [1 mark]

(a) Noun — ‘The poor’ refers to a group of people. Here ‘poor’ is used as a noun (with ‘the’), not as an adjective modifying a noun. [1 mark]
(b) Adjective — ‘Gold’ is functioning as an adjective of quality/material describing the necklace. [1 mark]
(c) Adverb — ‘Fast’ here modifies the verb ‘spread’ (tells how the news spread), so it is an adverb, not an adjective. [1 mark]

all
(i) Number: All students must attend the morning assembly. (refers to every student — countable)
(ii) Quantity: All the milk has been used for making paneer. (refers to the total amount — uncountable) [1 mark]

no
(i) Number: No tickets are available for the cricket match. (countable)
(ii) Quantity: No water was left in the tank after summer. (uncountable) [1 mark]

sufficient
(i) Number: We have sufficient chairs for the guests. (countable)
(ii) Quantity: There is sufficient food for everyone at the party. (uncountable) [1 mark]

(a) Adjectives: beautiful, Pink, magnificent, ancient, several, thousand, local, colourful, fine, delicious, Rajasthani, Each, wonderful, historic [2 marks]
(b) Types:
• Quality: beautiful, magnificent, ancient, colourful, fine, delicious, wonderful, historic
• Proper: Pink (from the proper name), Rajasthani (from Rajasthan)
• Number: several, thousand (indefinite numeral)
• Demonstrative/Distributive: Each [2 marks]
(c) Example: Jaipur is more beautiful than many other cities. / The Hawa Mahal is more magnificent than many buildings. [1 mark]

Sample answer:
Our big [quality] school is located on a wide [quality] road in the city. It has three [number] floors and many [number] classrooms. The spacious [quality] playground is green [quality] and well-maintained. Each [distributive] classroom has comfortable [quality] chairs and modern [quality] fans. This [demonstrative] school gives us wonderful [quality] memories and sufficient [quantity] opportunities to learn.
[1 mark per 2 correctly used and classified adjectives, up to 5 marks]

Absolute adjectives describe qualities that are already at their maximum or minimum — they are complete in themselves and cannot logically have degrees. [1 mark]
• ‘Unique’ means ‘one of a kind’ — something cannot be ‘more one of a kind’.
• ‘Perfect’ means ‘without any flaw’ — there cannot be ‘more perfect’.
• ‘Complete’ means ‘fully finished’ — it cannot be ‘more complete’.
Two more examples: dead (something is either dead or alive), empty (a container is either empty or not). Also accept: universal, absolute, infinite, round, square, pregnant, etc. [1 mark]