Choose the sentences in which the adjectives are used correctly:
(A) The film was so bored that half the audience left during the interval.
(B) The dal that Grandmother is cooking smells delicious.
(C) We found an asleep puppy under the stairs.
(D) Mrs Rao bought a beautiful old wooden table for the dining room.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (B) and (D) only
An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun, for example a tall tree, the food is tasty.
(A) The film was so bored that half the audience left during the interval. — Incorrect.
- An adjective ending in -ing describes what causes a feeling.
- An adjective ending in -ed describes the person who has the feeling.
- The film caused the dull feeling, so it was “boring”.
- The audience felt “bored”.
- Correct form: The film was so boring that half the audience left during the interval.
(B) The dal that Grandmother is cooking smells delicious. — Correct.
- “Smells” here is a linking verb, like “is”.
- It is followed by an adjective that describes the subject.
- “Delicious” describes the dal.
(C) We found an asleep puppy under the stairs. — Incorrect.
- “Asleep” is used only after a verb, as in “The puppy was asleep”.
- It is not used before a noun.
- Before a noun we say “sleeping”.
- Correct form: We found a sleeping puppy under the stairs.
(D) Mrs Rao bought a beautiful old wooden table for the dining room. — Correct.
- When several adjectives come before a noun, they follow a fixed order.
- Opinion comes first, then age, then material.
- Here “beautiful” (opinion), “old” (age) and “wooden” (material) are in the right order.