Mind boggling literary question....?

Question

the word "marked" is an adjective.... as in

"He had the marked card, so he went ahead in line"

BUT

for the word " abhorred".... it's a 'transitive verb'. like

"he had the abhorred card, so he had to go behind in line"

HOW COME "ABHORRED" IS NOT AN ADJECTIVE?? or is it? but i did research, i dont think it is

Answer 1

In the example you gave, abhorred is an adjective.

Marked can be a verb or an adjective also, depending on the context.

Answer 2

It IS an adjective, when you are using it in this sense.  The same applies to lots of words.  They are classed as different "parts of speech" depending upon how they are used within a sentence.

For example, in the sentence, "I said that that "that", that that man used, was incorrect".  The word "that" is used in several different ways.