Match the underlined adjectives in List-I with their kinds in List-II.
| List-I (Sentences) | List-II (Kinds of Adjective) |
|---|---|
| (A) What a crowd there was at Marina Beach on Sunday evening! | (I) Possessive Adjective |
| (B) Ritu found her lost earring in the very drawer she had searched twice. | (II) Adjective of Number |
| (C) Kabir lent his cricket bat to the new boy in class. | (III) Exclamatory Adjective |
| (D) The Joshi family lives on the fifth floor of a building in Thane. | (IV) Emphasizing Adjective |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun, for example a tall tree, the food is tasty.
| List-I | List-II | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| (A) What a crowd there was at Marina Beach on Sunday evening! | (III) Exclamatory Adjective | An exclamatory adjective shows strong feeling about a noun. The sentence ends with “!”, and “What a” shows surprise at the crowd. |
| (B) Ritu found her lost earring in the very drawer she had searched twice. | (IV) Emphasizing Adjective | An emphasizing adjective adds force to a noun: own, very. “Very” stresses that it was the same drawer. |
| (C) Kabir lent his cricket bat to the new boy in class. | (I) Possessive Adjective | A possessive adjective shows whom a thing belongs to. “His” shows that the bat belongs to Kabir. |
| (D) The Joshi family lives on the fifth floor of a building in Thane. | (II) Adjective of Number | An adjective of number tells how many, or a thing’s place in order. “Fifth” tells which floor in order. |