Level: Pre-intermediate (A2)
In this numeral adjectives quiz you have to decide which type of numeral adjective the word in capitals is.
Refer back to this types of adjective lesson before taking the quiz if you are unsure about the different types of numeral adjective.
The types are:
Look at the word in capitals. What type of numeral adjective is it? The quiz also tests you on the types of definite numeral adjectives: ordinal, cardinal and multiplicative.
Definite numeral adjectives are used to show exact numbers.
Again, this is an exact number.
Indefinite numeral adjectives are used to answer the question such as 'how many' and 'how much' but in a non-specific way.
Distributive adjectives are when groups of people or things (i.e. guitars in this case) are separated out into individual entities (here represented by the word 'one').
These are the three types of definite numeral adjective. Ordinal adjectives describe the order of something.
Indefinite numeral adjectives are used to answer the questions such as 'how many' and 'how much' but in a non-specific way.
Multiplicative adjectives denote how many fold, as in single, double, triple, etc.
Distributive adjectives are when groups of people or things (i.e. all the people) are separated out into individual entities (every person).
Cardinals are the numbers one, two, three, four, etc.
Distributive adjectives are when groups of people or things (i.e. all the students) are separated out into individual entities (each of them).
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