Adjectives
Adjectives
A word used with a noun to describe or point out, the person, animal, place or thing which the noun names, or tell the number or quantity, is called an adjective.
Examples
.These are beautiful flowers.
There are eight kinds of Adjectives:
1 Proper Adjectives
2 Adjectives of Quality
3 Adjectives of Quantity
4 Adjectives of Number
5 Demonstrative Adjectives
6 Distributive Adjectives
7 Interrogative Adjectives
8 Possessive Adjectives
1 Proper Adjectives
Adjectives formed from proper nouns are called proper Adjectives
Examples
1 Pakistani food
2 The English language
3 Italian cheese
2 Adjectives of Quality
The Adjectives which point out some quality of a person or thing are called adjectives of Quality.
1. It is a good book.
2 she is an honest girl.
3 He is a clever man.
4 The foolish old crow tried to sing.
5 is a beautiful colour.
3 Adjectives of Quantity
The Adjectives which point out the quantity of a Noun are called Adjectives of
Quantity.
Examples
1 He has lost all his wealth.
2. She didn't eat any meat.
3 My mom has much better.
Adjectives of Number
4 Adjectives of Number include:
Cardinal Numbers as
one, two, three and so on.
Example
1 I have two hands.
2 He has two cars.
Ordinal Numbers as
first, fifth, seventh, thirteenth, etc
Examples
Sunday is the first day of the week.
Multiplicatives as single, double, triple, two-fold, tenfold, etc.
Example
He paid double the usual fare.
Indefinite Number as
all, some, any, enough, no, many, few, several, etc. Distributive Numerals which refer to each of number as each, every, neither.
Examples
1 Here are some apricots.
2. There are no pictures on the wall.
5 Demonstrative Adjectives
These are the adjectives which show which or what thing is meant as:
that,these , whose some, such, etc.
1 This boy is lazy.
(ii) That girl is fat.
These children play.
6. Distributive Adjectives
The adjectives which show that the things have been taken separately or in separate groups are called Distributive Adjectives.
1. On either side is a narrow lane.
2 Every student should come in uniform.
3 Each of the boys was there.
4. Neither of you turned up.
7. Interrogative Adjectives
The Adjectives used with Nouns to ask questions are called Interrogative Adjectives.
(i) Whose pen is this?
(ii) What game do you play?
(iii) Which way would you like to go?
Iv). What manner of man he is ?
8. Possessive Adjectives
The genitives forms of personal pronouns used to qualify Nouns are called Possessive Adjectives.
i) My brother is loyal to his job.
ii) One must do one's job.
iii) She has ruined her health.
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