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Form an adjective from the following noun:
Hope
a) Hopeable
b) Hopen
c) Hopeful
d) Hopely

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Hint: The Adjective is a word used to describe a noun/ pronoun. The adjective will tell us about nature/ character or anything special about the noun/ pronoun.
Example:He is strong. (Here strong is an adjective because strong defines the pronoun he.)
     Kolkata is a beautiful city. (Beautiful describes the noun ‘Kolkata’.)

Complete answer:
a) Hopeable: This is an incorrect word. The suffix able is not used with the word hope. Instead, it can be used with the bear, forming bearable.
b) Hopen: There is no word in existence as hopen. The suffix ‘en’ cannot be used with hope as it would form no such word.
c) Hopeful: Hopeful is a word that tells us about a situation or condition in which hope of a noun rises or is stimulated.
Example: He was hopeful for his promotion.
d) Hopely: This word is incorrect and does not exists. The suffix ‘ly’ is not to be used with hope, instead coward, the saint would be preferred words. ‘cowardly’, ‘saintly’.
The adjective formed from the noun ‘hope’ will be hopeful.

Note:
The conversion of ‘hope’ (noun) to ‘hopeful’ (adjective) is shown with the examples below.
We were told not to lose hope. (Here hope is a noun, which is taken as a feeling.)
The hopeful nature of that boy cheers me up. (Hopeful here is used as an adjective which tells us about the character of the boy.)