An adjective tells you more about a noun or pronoun. An adjective is a word that describes a noun (the name of a thing or a place). It was a terrible book. The word 'terrible' is an adjective.

In each item below, the incomplete words require the same word root to form a family of words that differ according to their part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb). For each family of words, ...

An adjective tells you more about a noun or pronoun. An adjective is a word that describes a noun (the name of a thing or a place). It was a terrible book. The word 'terrible' is an adjective.