{"id":1415,"date":"2012-08-30T10:42:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T17:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e-gmat.com\/blogs\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2022-11-24T16:39:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T11:09:50","slug":"adjectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-gmat.com\/blogs\/adjectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">A <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min read <\/span><\/span>\n<p>Adjectives are the words that describe or modify nouns or pronouns. They do so by answering questions such as these about the entity they modify \u2013 What kind is it? How many are there? Which one is it? For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Incessant<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">anxiety<\/span> has undermined his health.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In this sentence, \u201cincessant\u201d is the adjective that describes the noun \u201canxiety\u201d. <strong>What kind of \u201canxiety\u201d are we talking about? <\/strong>&nbsp;We are talking about the anxiety that never stopped. So anxiety has been modified by \u201cincessant\u201d. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Every cloud has a <strong>silver<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">lining<\/span>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This famous proverb contains the adjective \u201csilver\u201d that modifies the noun \u201ccloud\u201d. 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