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Types of Adjectives Explained

The document discusses the different types of adjectives in English: descriptive adjectives describe nouns, quantity/numeric adjectives indicate amounts, predicative adjectives follow linking verbs, attributive adjectives precede nouns, possessive adjectives show ownership, demonstrative adjectives indicate proximity, indefinite adjectives are formed from indefinite pronouns, interrogative adjectives ask questions, comparative adjectives show comparisons, superlative adjectives convey maximum quality, absolute adjectives cannot be compared, and distributive adjectives apply to individual items.

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Types of Adjectives Explained

The document discusses the different types of adjectives in English: descriptive adjectives describe nouns, quantity/numeric adjectives indicate amounts, predicative adjectives follow linking verbs, attributive adjectives precede nouns, possessive adjectives show ownership, demonstrative adjectives indicate proximity, indefinite adjectives are formed from indefinite pronouns, interrogative adjectives ask questions, comparative adjectives show comparisons, superlative adjectives convey maximum quality, absolute adjectives cannot be compared, and distributive adjectives apply to individual items.

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Adjective and its Types

Descriptive Adjective or Adjective of Quality

They describe noun and give information about


them.

Examples:
Tall boy, Strong man, beautiful lady, bright day,
etc.

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Adjective of Quantity or Numeric adjective

They talk about the quantity of a noun.


They answer such questions as, ‘how much’
or ‘how many’.

Examples:
Three boys, eight girls, little sugar, many
days, etc.
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Predicative Adjectives

Predicative adjectives are those adjectives which


follow a linking verb (be, seem, look, fell,
become, etc. They are not placed before a Noun.
Examples:
• The bag is heavy.
• The girl is beautiful.

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Attributive Adjective

An Attributive adjective comes before a noun and


not after a linking verb (be, seem, look, feel,
become, etc.)
Examples:
• This is heavy bag.
• She is a beautiful girl.

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Possessive Adjectives

They are the possessive pronouns used as adjective.


Thus they are named as possessive adjectives. “my,
our, your, his, its, their” are possessive adjectives.
Examples:
• This is my car.
This is your bag

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Demonstrative Adjectives

Demonstrative adjectives (this, that, these those, whose)


show whether the noun they refer to is singular or plural and
whether it is located near or far away from the speaker.

Examples:
• I like this car.
• She loved those days of her youth.

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Indefinite Adjectives
An indefinite adjective is an adjective formed from an
indefinite pronoun. The most common indefinite
pronouns are:
“all, any, anyone, anything, each, everybody, everyone,
everything, few, many, nobody, none, several, some,
somebody, and someone”
Examples:
• There are many people in the room.
• Some books are placed on the table.

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Interrogative Adjectives

Interrogative adjectives modify nouns and ask questions.


They include which, what, whose. They are used before
nouns. Read the following examples.

Examples:
• What subject do you like most?

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Comparative Adjectives

Comparative adjectives convey the supreme


value of nouns. They are the superlative
degrees of the adjectives.
Examples:
• She is the tallest girl in the class.
• This is the most interesting novel I have ever
read.

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Possessive Adjectives
Superlatives adjectives convey the supreme
value of nouns. They are the superlative
degree of the adjectives.
Examples:
• She is the tallest girl in the class.
• This is the most interesting novel I have ever
read.

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Absolute Adjectives

The absolute adjectives are the adjectives that cannot


be compared. Some absolute adjectives are “supreme,
dead, total, final, fatal, eternal, perfect, unique,
infinitive”.

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Distributive Adjective

Ever, every, either, neither are called distributive adjectives.

Examples:
• I will give a book to each student in the class.
• Every student in the class is hardworking.
• You can have either book.
• You can have neither nook.

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