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Which of the following words is not an adjective?

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Explanation

An adjective is a 'describing' word; the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified. Examples are "beautiful", "fast", good", "sweet" and "helpful". A tip for identifying adjectives is that you can put "to be" in front of the word: "To be beautiful", "she is beautiful", "the beautiful girl".

Statistics

91% correct 69 correct · 7 incorrect

Question added 2012-05-04