Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option:
Some adjectives can be formed from the _______ of certain verbs.
a) past tense
b) past participle
c) present participle
d) root form

Answer 1

Hint: The student should recall how adjectives are formed, what their role is, and how they are placed in a sentence. Then the student should try to form an example wherein they can try to use the given forms of the verbs to determine whether they form adjectives or not.

Complete answer:
 An adjective is a word that expresses an attribute of something. An adjective is the word class that qualifies nouns. For example – ‘beautiful’ is an adjective in the sentence ‘She is very beautiful’.
In the given question, we have to find out which of the options includes an answer that can form an adjective from a verb.
Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question -
Option (a.), ‘past tense', refers to ‘a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past’.
Therefore, option (a.) is incorrect as it cannot be used to form an adjective from certain verbs.
Option (b.), ‘past participle', refers to ‘a participle that expresses completed action’.
Therefore, option (b.) is correct as adjectives are often formed using the past participle of some verbs.
Option (c.), ‘present participle', refers to ‘a participle expressing present action; in English is formed by adding -ing’. Therefore, option (c.) is incorrect as it cannot be used to form an adjective from certain verbs.
Option (d.), ‘root form', refers to ‘(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed’. Therefore, option (d.) is incorrect as it cannot be used to form an adjective from certain verbs.

Note:
 In this question, it will be helpful for the student to recall the concept of verbs. A verb is a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence. A verb is the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence.