Question

I have a pet dog.What is the adjective in this sentence?

Answer 1

Answer:

pet is the adjective

Answer 2

Concept:

We will require the definition of a noun, and adjective from the parts of speech in grammar.

The Noun is a naming word.

An Adjective defines, identifies or tells us more about the noun or pronoun they appear with.

Given:

We are given a sentence.

Find:

We are to find the adjective in the sentence.

Solution:

From the sentence, we identify the noun as dog and the word pet is referring to the quality of the dog which says that the dog is bought or adopted by an owner.

The Adjective is a word which defines or identifies a noun and the word pet is identifying the quality of the word dog which is the noun in the sentence.

Hence, The word pet is the adjective as it identifies the noun in the sentence.