later
.... date for submitting
Fill in the blanks with appropriate forms of adjectives indicating age and adjectives of time
and position. One has been done for you.
1. This is to notify that the annual examination has been postponed to the ...
part of this month due to the elections. The
the registration form will be 30 October
. Though the students are allowed to pay all
their dues by cash or by cheque, the
payments on the .....
date are requested to collect their admit cards
week.
....... is preferable. Those making
....... than George
2. George, Sajal, Ajit, Farooq and Palani are five players in the District under 18 Volley
Ball Team. George is 16, Sajal is 13, Ajit is 14, Farooq is 13 and Palani is 15 years of age.
George is the ......
in the team. Palani is .......
and .......
... than Ajit. Ajit, though .....
.... than George and
Palani, is the captain of the team. Sajal and Farooq are the
........... They are
... than Palani by a year. George is .....
... than Ajit by two
years. Both Sajal and Farooq are .....
.than George by three years.
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Answer:
Explanation:
Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence. The Articles — a, an, and the — are adjectives.
the tall professor
the lugubrious lieutenant
a solid commitment
a month's pay
a six-year-old child
the unhappiest, richest man
If a group of words containing a subject and verb acts as an adjective, it is called an Adjective Clause. My sister, who is much older than I am, is an engineer. If an adjective clause is stripped of its subject and verb, the resulting modifier becomes an Adjective Phrase: He is the man who is keeping my family in the poorhouse.
Before getting into other usage considerations, one general note about the use — or over-use — of adjectives: Adjectives are frail; don't ask them to do more work than they should. Let your broad-shouldered verbs and nouns do the hard work of description. Be particularly cautious in your use of adjectives that don't have much to say in the first place: interesting, beautiful, lovely, exciting. It is your job as a writer to create beauty and excitement and interest, and when you simply insist on its presence without showing it to your reader — well, you're convincing no one.
Consider the uses of modifiers in this adjectivally rich paragraph from Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel. (Charles Scribner's, 1929, p. 69.) Adjectives are highlighted in this color; participles, verb forms acting as adjectives, are highlighted in this blue. Some people would argue that words that are part of a name — like "East India Tea House — are not really adjectival and that possessive nouns — father's, farmer's — are not technically adjectives, but we've included them in our analysis of Wolfe's text.