Seems like you need to study up on the unit circle.
Here is a play page.
Its great if you already understand what you are looking at but maybe not so great if you don't.
https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/unit-circle.html
This video looks really good. I have only watch about half but she sweemed to be explaining it really well.
summarizing.
If an angle is drawn on the unit circle as shown in the video, the hypotenuse of any triangle will be 1.
So
cos of the angle is the x value on the circumference of the unit circle So cos will be positive in the 1st and 4th quadrants
sin of the angle is the y value on the circumference of the unit circle So sin will be positive in the 1st and 2nd quadrants
tan of the angle is the y value divided by the x value on the circumference of the unit circle So tan will be positive in the 1st and 3rd quadrants
A sentance to help you with this is ALL Stations To Central
All trig values are positive for angles less than 90 degrees, that is angles in the 1st quadrant
Sin (but not cos or tan) will be positive for all angles in the 2nd quadrant, that is angles between 90 and 180 degrees
Tan is positive in the 3rd quadrant
Cos is positive in the 4th quadrant.