Question

Fill in the blank with a suitable adjective.
He knelt at his side and comforted him with _________ words.
A) Harsh
B) Silent
C) Kind
D) Cruel

Answer 1

Hint: An adjective is a word that describes or modifies a noun or noun phrases. An adjective talks more about a noun. For example: They live in a beautiful house, She wore a beautiful dress, Ray’s hair is gorgeous.

Complete answer:
In the given sentence we will use the descriptive adjective or the adjective of quality. The descriptive adjectives can be defined as the type of adjectives that are used to express the size, color, or shape of a person, a thing, an animal, or a place.
Option A) Harsh – is an incorrect answer because the meaning of harsh is ‘unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses or rough or coarse’ and the word harsh is completely opposite of the word that is required in the blank. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.
Option B) Silent – is an incorrect answer because the meaning of silent is ‘not making any sound or inaudible or soundless’ and this is again an inappropriate option in the blank as it does not provide any meaning to the sentence. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.
Option C) Kind – is the correct answer because the meaning of kind is ‘helpful nature or sympathetic nature’ and this is the best fit in the blank and it gives complete sense in the sentence. Thus, this is the correct answer.
Option D) Cruel – is an incorrect answer because the meaning of cruel is ‘brutal or inhuman or savage’ and this option does not give the appropriate meaning in the sentence. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘C’ i.e, He knelt at his side and comforted him with kind words.

Note: For answering this question descriptive adjective is used to provide more information to a noun by describing or modifying it. In this sentence, the first part gives us an idea that this person is of good-nature, benevolent, sympathetic, understanding.