Question

There are forty students in the class The underlined word is a/an​

Answer 1

The correct replacement for the underlined word 'the' is 'a'.

The correct statement is 'There are forty students in a class.'

▪︎'A' is used instead of 'an' because 'an' is used in front of the words starting a vowel i.e, a, e, i, o and u.

For example,

An egg

An owl

An Indian

An antelope

An umbrella

Answer 2

Complete Question:

There are forty students in the class. The underlined word is a/an _____?

A) Adjective B) Noun C) Pronoun D) Adverb​

Answer:

There are forty students in the class.

In the above sentence, the underlined word ''forty'' is an adjective.

• Option (A) is the required answer.
• There are eight parts of speech in which an adjective is one of them.

• In the given sentence, the word ''students'' is a noun. The word ''forty'' is an adjective because it is describing the noun word ''students''

• An adjective is a word which describes a noun or pronoun such as person, place, thing or idea. An adjective can tell color, size, shape, taste, sound, number, weather etc.