Adjectives
What is an adjective?
An Adjective is a word that describes a
noun, noun phrase or pronoun and
provides more information. Adjectives
can come either before or after a noun.
An adjective that comes before a noun
is an ‘Attributive adjective’. An
adjective that comes after a noun is a
‘Predicative adjective’.
Types of 1 Descriptive Adjectives
2 Numeral Adjectives
Adjectives 3 Quantitative Adjectives
4 Demonstrative Adjectives
5 Interrogative Adjectives
6 Possessive Adjectives
7 Proper Adjectives
8 Exclamatory Adjectives
Descriptive Adjectives
These adjectives describe the quality or nature of the noun or
pronoun by giving an idea about the characteristics of the noun or
pronoun, such as appearance, positive or negative personality,
colour, shape, size, time, sound, touch, taste, condition etc.
Ex: I have a pink book.
Numeral
Adjectives
Numeral Adjectives show how many persons or
things are meant. They represent numeral
value. They are further divided into two kinds
i.e. Definite Numeral adjectives and Indefinite
Numeral adjectives and distributive numeral
adjectives
Ej: Few students came to class.
Quantitative
Adjectives
Adjectives of quantity show how
much quantity of a thing is meant.
Ex: I have three books in my bag.
Demonstrative Adjectives
Demonstrative adjectives are
mainly used to describe the
position of a subject (a noun or
pronoun) in space or time. This,
that, these and those are the
demonstrative adjectives in
English.
Ex: This is my favorite song.
Interrogative
Adjectives
An adjective that is used to modify a
noun or a pronoun by asking a question is
called an interrogative adjective. There
are only a few adjectives that can be
termed as interrogative adjectives. They
are whose, what and which.
Ex: Whose book is this?
Possessive
Adjectives
These adjectives are used to show or
represent possession of a quality. For
example: my, your, his, her, their, its,
whose, etc.
Ex: This is my classroom.
Proper Adjectives
A proper adjective is the type of
adjective that relates to the proper
noun. When a proper noun describes a
noun or a pronoun then the adjective
called a proper adjective.
Ex: Japanese cars are very fast.
Exclamatory
Adjectives
The word what is sometimes used
as an Exclamatory Adjective.
Ex: What a beautiful day!
Thank you!
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