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6) You bought a lovely flower yesterday morning.
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7) They studied hard for the examination last week.
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8) You chose the right person for this job.
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9) I travelled to different parts of Indonesia last year.
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10) Diana got up late yesterday.
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ADJECTIVE

 Meaning: a member of a class of words functioning as modifiers of nouns,
typically by describing, delimiting, or specifying quantity.
 Some adjectives can be identified by their endings. Typical adjective endings
include:
-able/-ible achievab’e, capabIe iIegibIe remarkable
-al biographical functionad ,internal, logical
-ful beautiful, carefui, grateful harmful
-ic cubiç manic rustic; terrific
-ive attractive, dismissive, inventive,
persuasive
-less bteathless, careless, groundless, restiess
-ous courageous, don gerous, dssastrous,
fabulous

 However a large number of very common adjectives cannot be Identified in this
way. They do not have typkal adjectival form:
Bad Distant Quist
Bright Elementary Real
Clever Good Red
Cold Great Silent
Common Honest Simple
Complete Hot Strange
Dark Main Wicked
Deep Morose Wide
Difficult Old Young

 As this list shows, adjectives are formally very diverse. However, they have a
number of characteristics which we can use to identify them.
 Characteristics of Adjectives
Adjectives can take a modifying word, such as very, eirremely, or less, before
them:
very cold weather

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