DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVE

A descriptive adjective is a word which describes nouns and pronouns. Most of the adjectives belong in this type.

DEFINITION OF DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES:

A word that describes a noun/pronoun is called a descriptive adjective. It bestows a quality/feature to the noun.

EXAMPLES of Descriptive Adjective in Sentences:

o He gave me four gorgeous yellow roses.

o I want to buy a diamond ring.

o She loves golden jars.

o We ate some delicious  food.

o He plays with an enormous bat.

o Robin is a hard-working  person.  

o Shaun is an exciting  cricketer.

o Watson is a dashing  all-rounder.

o We caught a running  kangaroo.

o Don’t eat in that broken plate.

QUANTITATIVE ADJECTIVES
A quantitative adjective provides information about the quantity of the nouns/pronouns.

Definition of Quantitative Adjective:

A word that modifies a noun by indicating a number/quantity is called a quantitative adjective. It can be either cardinal or ordinal number.

EXAMPLES of Quantitative Adjective in Sentences:

o He has 40 horses.

o I have been standing here for three hours.

o Four girls were expelled from the school.

o The first boy failed in the last exam.

o He ate half of my burger.

o Albert roasted some chicken for his teammates.

o Ron has many pens in his large bag.

o Little water is needed to make that pastry.

o I do not have any chocolates in my bag.

o I have sufficient  money for shopping.

PROPER ADJECTIVES
Proper adjectives are the adjective form of proper nouns. When proper nouns modify or describe other nouns/pronouns, they become proper
adjectives.

Definition of Proper Adjectives:

Adjectives that come from the proper nouns are called proper adjectives.

EXAMPLES of Proper Adjectives:

o My brother likes Italian cuisine. 

o Shakespearean sonnets are easy to comprehend.

o Petrarchan sonnets are more complex.

o He has always been a Marxist.

o There is nothing called platonic love. 

o He was a Serbian baseball player. 

o He uses a Kentuckian  rifle. 

o All the African people are not black.

o Texan English is different from conventional English.

o Mexican cuisine is an incredible dish.

DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES
A demonstrative adjective directly refers to something or someone. Demonstrative adjectives include the words: this, that, these, those.

Definition of demonstrative adjective:

A word that directly indicates a person/thing or few people and few things. The demonstrative words are that, those, this, and these.

EXAMPLES of Demonstrative Adjectives in Sentences:

o These mangoes are rotting.

o I can’t forget that incident.

o Those people were mean to her.

o I cannot give you money at this moment.

o I could not manage it at that moment.

o Those pants are not very comfortable.

o This pen is smoother than that pen.

o That dress looks good on you.

o These puppies are very playful.

o I did not enjoy that book.

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES
A possessive adjective indicates possession or ownership. It suggests the belongingness of something to someone/something.

Definition of Possessive Adjective:

Some of the most used possessive adjectives are my, his, her, our, their, your.

EXAMPLES of Possessive Adjective:

o Our father told us not to quarrel with anyone.

o Your cycle has been stolen yesterday.

o Your child is not doing well in the school.

o We are concerned about his performance.

o The students of class seven submitted their assignment.

o She made her life miserable by pessimism.

o Their favorite teacher did not come yesterday.

o Will you mind opening my drawer and look into it?

o I walked for 4 hours and now I cannot feel my legs.

o She could not identify his motives.

INTERROGATIVE ADJECTIVES
An interrogative adjective asks a question. An interrogative adjective must be followed by a noun or a pronoun. The interrogative adjectives are:
which, what, whose. These words will not be considered as adjectives if a noun does not follow right after them. ‘Whose’ also belongs to the possessive
adjective type.

Definition of Interrogative Adjective:

A word that modifies a noun by asking a question is called interrogative adjectives.

EXAMPLES of Interrogative Adjective in Sentences:

o Which player did get a fifty yesterday?

o What recipe did you choose to make this dish?

o Which bat is Watson’s?

o Which song is Zara listening to?

o What product did you order from there?

o Which topics are more important for the discussion?

o Whose pants did you wear?

o Whose phone did you use when you talked to me?

o Whose book was that?

o Which pen do you like more?

INDEFINITE ADJECTIVES
An indefinite adjective describes or modifies a noun unspecifically. They provide indefinite/unspecific information about the noun.
The common indefinite adjectives are few, many, much, most, all, any, each, every, either, nobody, several, some, etc.

Definition of indefinite adjectives:

Indefinite adjective are classified as "quantifiers" (a type of determiner) in contemporary grammar.

EXAMPLES of indefinite adjectives:

 I liked most people at the party.

 Some mice have chewed the cables.

 There are several reasons for my resignation.

 Each team will receive a 2-minute warning before the start.

 I expected several visitors for today’s function.

 Do you have enough paper sheets to copy down?

 Each student must appear for the test.

 Do any soldiers were waiting for us ?

 Another chance was not given to anybody.

 Both charges have not been proved.

ARTICLES
Articles also modify the nouns. So, articles are also adjectives.

Definition of articles:

Articles determine the specification of nouns. ‘A’ and ‘an’ are used to refer to an unspecific noun, and ‘the’ is used to refer to a
specific noun.

EXAMPLES of articles:

o A cat is always afraid of water. (Here, the noun ‘cat’ refers to any cat, not specific.)

o The cat is afraid of me. (This cat is a specific cat.)

o An electronic product should always be handled with care.

o A woman arrived.

o He is reading a magazine.

o She bought a dress today.

o Would you like an ice-cream?

o An automobile went by.

o He waited an hour.

o The woman arrived.

COMPOUND ADJECTIVES
When compound nouns/combined words modify other nouns, they become a compound adjective. This type of adjective usually
combines more than one word into a single lexical unit and modifies a noun. They are often separated by a hyphen or joined together by a
quotation mark.

EXAMPLES of compound adjectives:

o I have a broken-down sofa.

o I saw a six-foot-long snake.

o He gave me an “I’m gonna kill you now” look.

o Daniella is a part-time worker.

o This is an all-too-common error.

o Beware of the green-eyed monster.

o He is a cold-blooded man.

o I love this brightly-lit room!

o Danny’s dog is well-behaved .

o You have to be open-minde d about things.