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ADJECTIVES
Definition: A word that qualifies (tells/explains) a noun
or a pronoun.

Types and examples

Adjective Type

Examples

1. Quality

Lazy/good/bad/golden/black/difficult/Indian

2. Quantity

Some/any/little/enough/all/great/much/few

3. Number
4. Demonstrative

One/two/three/few/most/several/all
first/second/third
This/that/these/those

5. Distributive

Each/either/neither/every

6.Interrogative

Which/what/whose

7.Emphasizing

Own/very

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Rules and Applications:

Adjective

Rules and applications

1. Enough

Used just before a noun

Eg: enough water.

2. Some

Used for positive things

Eg : help/request

3. Any

Used for negative things

Eg :

4. senior/junior/superior/inferior/ Takes to preposition after them

Prefer/prior
5. Historical

Related to history

6. Historic

Memorable

7. Industrial

Related to industry

8. Industrious

Hardworking

9. Farther

Distant/far flung

10.Further

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Degrees of Comparison:
Positive

Comparative

Superlative

1. Good

Better

Best

2. Great

Greater

Greatest

3. Smaller

Smaller

Smallest

4. Short

Shorter

Shortest

5. Wise

Wiser

Wisest

6. Hot

Hotter

Hottest

7. Beautiful

More beautiful

Most beautiful

8. Bad

Worse

Worst

9. Much

More

most

10. Many

More

Most

11. Old

Older/Elder

Oldest/Eldest

12. Intelligent

More intelligent

Most intelligent

13. Difficult

More difficult

Most difficult

14. Useful

More useful

Most useful

15. Useless

More useless

Most useful
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Exercises:
Q1. Ashok is good and intelligent than his elder brother.
Q2. I do not like these kind of books as they waste time and
energy both.
Q3. He is five years elder than his friend Ram.
Q4. The three first chapters of this story book are worth
reading.
Q5. We should prefer health more than wealth.
Q6. Do you have salary enough to support your expenses?
Q7. India is a very industrious country and the people are
very hard working.
Q8. Its a historical fact that Ashoka was the greatest among
all the kings of India.
Q9. Indore is further from Lucknow than from Bhopal.
Q10. You are not as taller as your elder brother is.

Answers:
Ans 1: better and more intelligent should replace good and
intelligent.
Ans 2: this kind of books should replace these kind of
books.
Ans 3: to should replace than here.
Ans 4: first three should replace three first here.
Ans 5: to should replace more than here.
Ans 6: enough salary should replace salary enough here.
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Ans 7: industrial should replace industrious here.

Ans 8: No error.
Ans 9: further should replace farther here.
Ans 10: tall should replace taller here.

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ADVERBS
Definition: An adverb is a word that qualifies
(explains/tells the quality of) any part of speech except a
noun and a pronoun.

Types of Adverbs and Their Examples

Adverb types

Examples

1.

Manner

Wisely/slowly/loudly/nicely

2.

Place

Here/there/everywhere/out

3.

Time

Yesterday/soon/daily/today/late/early

4.

Number

Often/always/thrice/seldom/once

5.

Degree/Quantity

Very/entirely/rather/fully/nearly

6.

Reason

Therefore/hence/thus

7.
8.

Affirmation
/Negation

Surely/certainly/not

9.

Interrogative

How/why/where/when

10.

Relative

Where/when
This is where the boy lived.
(the place in which)

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Rules and Applications:

Adverb

Rule And Application

1.

Enough

Used just after the main

verb/adjective it refers

2.

Rather

Comes with negative adjective

3.

Fairly

Comes with positive adjectives

4.

Very

Used with positive and negative

adjectives

5.

Used just before the main verb

6.

seldom/never/always/
Often/hardly scarcely
Ago

7.

Before

Used with past

indefinite/present perfect tense

8.

More

Used before comparative

degree adjectives

9.

Most

Used before superlative

degrees

10.

Much

Used with quantity

11.

Too

Used for negative adjectives

Used with past indefinite tense

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Exercises:
Q1. Ashok is fairly clever but his brother is fairly stupid.
Q2. He works hard usually and completes his job on time
Q3. There are still much books left in the room.
Q4. He left that house five years before for career.
Q5. Its a historic monument and we should be proud if its beauty.
Q6. India is an industrial country and the people are very industrious.
Q7. He has enough done for the betterment of this organisation.
Q8. This book is enough good that we can get all the required details
from it.
Q9. He knows me hardly and thats why he will not trust me.
Q10. This news is very good to be true in any possible way.

Answers:
Ans 1: rather stupid should replace fairly here.
Ans 2: usually works hard should replace works hard usually
Ans 3: many should replace much here.
Ans 4: ago should replace before.
Ans 5: historical should replace historic here.
Ans 6: No error.
Ans 7: done enough should replace enough done here.
Ans 8: good enough should replace enough good here.
Ans 9: hardly knows me should replace knows me hardly here.
Ans 10: too should replace very here.

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