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The Adjective
HAFIZA RABIA AFZAL
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 A word which adds something to the meaning of a noun is called adjective.
 It describe the quantity and quality of noun .
 Example:
1. She is a pretty girl.
2. A brave man killed a dngerous snake.
Articles are also use as adjectives
Examples:
3. A girl
4. An apple
5. The badshahi mosque
The atributive and predictive Adjective
 An atributive adjective modifies a noun and comes before noun in the first position.
 Adj+noun
 Example:
1. He was carrying two big cardbord boxes.
The are called atrributive because they tell qualities of noun.
Example :
Sweet , ripe and red straberries are my favourite.
Predicative adjective:
Predicative adjective goes after “verb”the second position.
Noun +ing + verb + Adj
Example:
 This milk smells rotten .
 They often work as the object of the verb . Since the object and the verb are the predicate of the sentence, we use
the term predicative.
 The store is too far to go on foot .
 Kinds of Adjectives :
 1.Adjective of Quality
 These adjectives shows ,the kind ,quality or state of person or things.(these adj answer the question
“of what kind”.
 Example :
 Fresh fruits , good boy , hot water etc.
 2.Adjective of quality :
 Thes adj show the quantity of a thing ( these adj answer the
 question” how much”.
 Examples:
 A little money ,the whole property, some fruit etc.
3.Distributive adjectives:
 These adj show that things have been taken seprately or in seprate groups.
 Examples:
1. Every student should observe the discipline of college
2. None of them was a scout.
 Proper Adjectives
 These adj are made from proper nouns.
 Examples:
 Ameican girls , Chiniese silk etc
 5 Possasive Adjectives :
 These adj are use with nouns to show possession .
 Examples:
, Our collegeetc.
 6.Ephasising adj
 These adj are used to lay emphasis on some noun
 Example:
 Delay is the very reason of his failure.
 She is the only heir to this property.
 7.Exclamatory Adj
 When “what and how “ are use in exclamatory senses as well as adj.
 Example:
1. How foolish he is!
2. What a fool he is!
 Demonestrative Adj:

Demonestrative adj are use to identify or Expreess the relative position of a noun in time or place
 This , that, these , those.
 Adjective of numbers:
 Two types
 1.cordinal adj
 Cordinal adj such as”one, two “etc
 2.Ordinal adj:
 Orinnal adj such as “the first , the second etc.
 Order of adj:
 DANSACOM( Determinar, num, size , age , color,origan, material)
 Degrees of adj:
 1.positive degree:
 It is simply express a quality.
 Example
1. She is a tall girl.
2. He is a wise person.
 Conditions:
 1. Much + 2nd degree+ than
 Example
 He is much wise than me.
 2. The+ 2nd degree+ the + 2nd degree
 Example:
 She is taller of the .
 3.superlative degree:
 It is used when wecompae one person or thing with all other Persons or things of the same kind .
 The + 3rd degree
 Senseous verb +adj
 Example:
1. She is the tallest girl of the college.
 Rules:
 1.
 Some adj having no superlative or comparativ degree
 i.e
 Unique , ideal, perfact , dead, different , round , circular etc
 2.
 Use of double copm. And superlative is wrong
 Example
 He is more(×) wiser.
 3.
 Some:
 +ve
 There is some sugar in the pot .
 4.
 Any: (pasimist)
 As _ve
 Example
 Is there any person who has house ?
 5.
 Latin adj (senier, junior, prior , positerior etc ) is used with to.
 6.
 like few and a few , the quantifiers little and the little represent _ ve and+ ve quantities
respectively
 6.
 Some adj such as polite , simple , feeble ,gentle, narrow, stupid etc take either er and est or
more and most .
 7.
 Before verbal noun ( gerunds ) we use possessive adj ( my , our , your ) and not
possasive pronouns ( mine , ours, theirs , his etc ).
 8.
 Irregular adjectives such as good , bad ,little don’t follow any rule for the formation of
comparative or superlative degree.