Question

Identify the adjectives in the following sentence:
What an idea! It’s brilliant.
(a)Idea
(b)Brilliant
(c)An
(d)None of the above

Answer 1

Hint: Read the given sentence and decipher what it means. Point out the words which describe some quality or feature of the subject being talked about. Then go through the given options and eliminate the undesired options.

Complete answer:
An adjective is a word or phrase that modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing a quality about them. For example, “He is a handsome man.” Here, ‘handsome’ is an adjective. Adjectives are of different types like, ‘Descriptive’ which describe a noun or pronoun. For example, ‘Rough roar’, ‘Proper’ which modify a noun or pronoun. For example, ‘Chinese food’. Other types of adjectives are Quantitative, Demonstrative, Interrogative, Possessive, Numeral, Distributive.

In the given sentence we have two parts. One, the exclamatory part “What an idea!” and the other is the one following it “It’s brilliant.” In the first part, there is no adjective but a noun ‘idea’. The part of the sentence following is the one which tells about the quality of the idea. The adjective used for describing the noun idea is ‘brilliant’. Brilliant refers to someone who is exceptionally clever or smart, or to something that is bright or radiant. This is a ‘descriptive’ adjective.
Option a ‘idea’ as mentioned above is a noun which refers to a suggestion or thought for a course of action. This is not the required word. Thus, option ‘a’ is incorrect.
Option c ‘an’ is an adverb which serves as a modifier of a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. This is not the required word. Thus, option ‘c’ is incorrect too.
Coming to the last option d ‘None of the above’, it is inappropriate as we have already chosen an answer from the options stated above. Thus, the option ‘d’ is invalid.

Therefore, option ‘b’ is the correct answer.

Note: Note that an adjective always defines the quality of a noun or pronoun and thus it must either be preceded or followed by a noun or a pronoun. In this case, the noun preceded the adjective.