For instance: in the sentence, "The work was well and rapidly accomplished," was accomplished is a verb; in this, "No man of his day was more brilliant or more accomplished," was is the verb, and accomplished is an adjective.
Exercises.
1. Bring up sentences with twenty descriptive adjectives, having some of each subclass named in Sec. 143.
2. Is the italicized word an adjective in this?—
The old sources of intellectual excitement seem to be well-nigh exhausted.
ADJECTIVES OF QUANTITY.
145. Adjectives of quantity tell how much or how many. They have these three subdivisions:—
How much.
(1) QUANTITY IN BULK: such words as little, much, some, no, any, considerable, sometimes small, joined usually to singular nouns to express an indefinite measure of the thing spoken of.
The following examples are from Kingsley:—