Choose the sentences in which the adjectives are used correctly:
(A) After last night’s storm, the old neem tree behind the post office is still alive.
(B) Mrs Rao was quite satisfying with the new painter’s work.
(C) Our school’s annual fair was very success this year.
(D) Ammi says the farewell song was the saddest part of the whole evening.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A) 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) After last night’s storm, the old neem tree behind the post office is still alive. — Correct.
- “Alive” is used only after a verb, never before a noun.
- Here it comes after “is”, so it is used correctly.
(B) Mrs Rao was quite satisfying with the new painter’s work. — Incorrect.
- An adjective ending in -ed describes the person who has a feeling. One ending in -ing describes the thing that causes it.
- Mrs Rao is the one who has the feeling, so the -ed form is needed.
- Correct form: Mrs Rao was quite satisfied with the new painter’s work.
(C) Our school’s annual fair was very success this year. — Incorrect.
- “Success” is a noun. After “was very”, we need an adjective that describes the fair.
- The adjective from the same root is “successful”.
- Correct form: Our school’s annual fair was very successful this year.
(D) Ammi says the farewell song was the saddest part of the whole evening. — Correct.
- “Sad” ends in one vowel and one consonant, so the last letter is doubled before -est: saddest.