Question

Fill in the blanks with the most suitable adjective and adverb:
She dressed up ________ and looked ________.
a)Beautiful, beauty
b)Beauty, beautifully
c)Beautifully, beautifully
d)Beautifully, beautiful

Answer 1

Hint: While an adjective describes a noun or a pronoun, an adverb describes a verb.

Complete step by step answer:
In the given sentence, the phrase ‘dressed up’ is a verb and needs to be described with an adverb. Similarly, the word ‘she’ is a pronoun which needs to be described with an adjective.

The difference between the words, beauty, beautiful and beautifully is that ‘beauty’ is a noun which is used to denote something that is attractive. An example is ‘The tourists were awe struck by the beauty of the pinking fountains.’ The word ‘beautiful’ is an adjective. For example, a beautiful woman. The word ‘beautifully’ is an adverb. For example, she sketched the picture very beautifully.

Thus, completing the sentence in the given question, ‘She dressed up beautifully and looked beautiful.’ Hence, option d is the correct option. Option a is incorrect because ‘beauty; is a noun which is not to be used in the sentence. Similarly, option b is also incorrect because it contains the noun. Option c contains only adverbs ‘beautifully’. Hence, this is also an incorrect option.


Note: Remember that we are describing ‘she’ and not ‘looked’ (which is a verb).