Question

Identify the category to which the underlined adjective belongs:
The ship sustained heavy damage.
a)Adjective of quality
b)Adjective of quantity
c)Indefinite number adjective
d)Demonstrative adjective

Answer 1

Hint: Adjectives are words that show an attribute of a noun, such as – sweet, cold, heavy, light, happy, sad, angry, red, etc.

Complete step-by-step answer:

 In the above question, there are different kinds of adjectives given in the options. First, we will discuss those and then conclude which is the correct option/solution. Now,
Option a – adjective of quality describes the nature of a subject or a noun or showing the kind of quality or characteristics of nouns or pronouns.
Option b – adjective of a quantity indicates the amount or estimated amount of the noun or pronoun in the sentence.
Option c – indefinite number adjective provides information about the amount of noun but does not tell the exact amount of noun in the sentence.
Option d – demonstrative adjectives are determiners used to identify or express the relative position of a noun in time or space. It demonstrates a noun that's been mentioned before, by replacing the noun so it does not have to be mentioned repeatedly.
Now, looking at the given explanation we can conclude that ‘option a’ is the correct solution for the given problem.

Note: In option – an adjective ‘heavy’ describes the kind of the noun – damage, in option – b ‘heavy’ doesn’t describe the quantity of ‘damage’, in option –c ‘heavy’ does not count of noun and in option – d, the adjective heavy does not demonstrate the noun in the sentence. Hence, one must always remember how the words are being used before finding errors.