ADJECTIVES

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 What is Adjectives ?
🔑 are the words that are used to
describe or modify nouns or pronouns .
🔑are the most used part of speech in
sentences.
🔑 Adjectives answer :
• Which one ?
• How many ?
• What kind ?
What kind ? Which one ? How many ?

blue car this town one second

long rope last week three boys

tall person the second day few car

big house the other women several people

Take Note :
⚠ adjectives do not always come before
the word that they modify .Sometimes they
follow it for example in the sentence :
- " The cup is full "
🔑 Nouns and verbs are needed t
o make a complete sentence , but
adjectives are just as important .I
ts the job of adjectives to modif
y nouns , pronouns and even ot
her adjectives.
"Types of Adjectives"
" 12 Different Forms to Know"
 12 kinds to know
📍Proper 📍Quantitative
📍Possessive 📍Indefinite
📍Descriptive 📍Demonstrative
📍Coordinate 📍Distributive
📍Compound 📍Predicate
📍Interrogative 📍Articles
 Proper Adjectives
🔑 are derived from proper nouns , so they
must be capitalized.
🔑provide derivation of adjectives from
proper nouns.
🔑 proper nouns names a specific person , place ,
or things while a proper adjective modifies a
specific person , place or things.
 Examples:
🔑 Since you live un Asia. Do you enjoy
Asian food ?
🔑 If people ever live on the planet Mars
they will have to endure the extremes of
the Martian climate .
🔑Although Albert Einstein is best known
for his contributionbin science in general ,
many books also about his Einsteinian
physics .
Proper adjectives are mostl
y of two types :
🔑those that come from names of places ,
countries , continents , region , cities .
🔑 those that come from names of people :
usually famous people , mostly historical ,
Some modem.
 Example :
🔑 France (proper noun) - French(proper adjective

🔑Japan (proper noun)-Japanese(proper adjective)

🔑 William Shakespeare (proper noun)-

Shakespearean (proper adjective)

🔑China (proper noun) - Chinese (proper adjective )

🔑 British (proper noun)- Britain (proper adjective )

 Take note :

⚠ Sometimes Proper adjective lo

se their connection with the prope
r noun that give them the right to
be capitalized.
 Possessive Adjectives
🔑 are generally classed as types of
pronouns. This is because they replace
the name of the person or thing that has
ownership.
🔑 the entire list of possessive adjective
as follow : my , your , her , his , their .
🔑 Possessive adjectives show possession. Eas
y enough, right? Possessive adjectives usually c
ome before their corresponding nouns.

Example:

⤵
🔑 Can I borrow Dave's pen ?
🔑 Can I borrow their pen ?

Replaces Dave's name

 Take Note :
⚠ Be careful when you use "its" as a
possessive adjective that you don't
confuse it with "it's" which is a
contraction for "it is " and doesn't
indicate any ownership and causes the
sentence to not make any grammatical
sense.
 Descriptive Adjectives
🔑describes a noun by expressing a
quality or attribute.
🔑are the most common of the various
types of adjectives.
🔑are generally what you'd envision
when imagining a word modifying a
noun .
 EXAMPLES :

🔑 The silly dog rolled around in the filthy

mud for hours .
🔑She's such a competent cashier.
🔑 He hurt her feelings when he labeled he
r as an annoying sister
 Coordinate Adjectives
🔑 are small groups of adjectives that band
together to modify the same noun .They're
seperated by the word "and" or with
commas(,).Using the phrase with multiple
adjectives to modify the same noun can create
an Adjective phrase.
 EXAMPLES :

🔑 She wore a pink and yellow top y

esterday.
🔑 It was a bright,sunny and glorio
us morning along tybee 🔑 Their mu
rder was a sad , sorry , gruesome af
fair.
 Take note :
⚠ Be careful when you're filling up
words before a noun

For example :
" blue hospital gown "
Compound Adjectives
🔑 compound adjective is formed
when two or more adjectives are
joined together to modify the same
noun .
 EXAMPLES :

🔑I have to write a 900-word essay.

🔑 I bought some fat-free cheese .
🔑 We are taking a five-hour dinner
cruise .
🔑 I am looking for a full-time job .
Interrogative Adjectives
🔑are among the seven different adjectives types
which will help to find answer to the questions
people ask .
🔑 These types of adjective are often used along
with nouns to ask questions such as : what , whose
, and which these are words that determine the
sentence completely in terms of questioning .
 Use of WHAT :
🔑 when asking for the reason of
something or for an explanation /
information about something .
Example:
🔑What fruit would go best with our
lunch today ?
🔑What time will you be arriving for
dinner at our house ?
 Use of WHOSE :
🔑 asking about who owns something.

Example :
🔑 Whose plate was left on the table after
breakfast ?
🔑 Whose lunchbox was left on the table in
the cafeteria ?
Use of WHICH:
🔑 When asking for information that specifies
something or in order to make a comparison
between two or more subjects .
Example:
🔑Which gym bag is yours ?
🔑 Which dishes should be eaten ever day ?
⚠The same goes with mixing up "your" with
" you're" , "whose " with "whos" and" their "
to" theyre ".These are very common gramma
tical mistakes to make , Just remember that a
possessive adjective won't have an apostroph
e.
 Quantitative Adjectives
🔑 is one that shows how much (quantity ) of a
thing is meant. Any quantity thats providing
further information about a noun constitutes a
quantitative noun .
🔑is always followed by a singular material or
abstract noun they also answer questions like :
"how much" or " how many "
🔑are generally used with uncountable no
uns .
🔑express the approximate amount of the n
ouns rather than the exact number :
🔑Many ,much, some , several , few , and
some enough are example of adjectives of
quantity.
 Examples:
🔑I ate some rice and drink some water .
🔑There was little milk at the bottom of the jug.
🔑I had enough exercise for the day.
🔑 I don't have much time . I've to leave early .
🔑 He has completed most of the work .
 Indefinite Adjectives
🔑decribe noun or pronouns in a non-
specific way. These adjectives point to non
-specific items..The Indefinite adjectives
include :few ,many ,no , several , and some.
Those token words convey that you're hot
on the trail of an indefinite adjectives.
 Examples:
🔑Few people get this far .
🔑Do you have many openings. ?
🔑There are no books in this library .
🔑 I reviewed several sources.
🔑 There are some tickets left.
Demonstrative Adjectives
🔑are also called as "demonstrative determiners "
or "possessive demonstrative.
🔑 is used to sign present or represent place.
There are two words used as demonstrative
adjectives these are : this , that , these , those .
 Used of THIS :
🔑to introduce ourselves or to introduce
others .
🔑 to point people or objects nearby and to
singular things .
🔑 for something that happened recently and
Might happen in the future (we have to say
or do )
 Examples:
🔑This house is old but solid .
🔑This ship will sail south tomorrow
morning .
🔑This night we have an appointment at
a big restaurant for a corporate meeting
 Used of THAT :
🔑For people and things that are not
near to the speaker.
🔑 use to qualify remote and singular
objects or person
 Examples:
🔑Give me that note . Its mine .
🔑Are that green house is yours ?
🔑Can you help me park that car ?
🔑Look! That phone is mine . You can't
look without permission.
 Used of THESE:
🔑for the plural objects amd people near us.
Examples:
🔑We bought these candles for our wedding
anniversary .
🔑These cakes are burn. I have to do new
one in the evening , my guests will come..
Used of THOSE:
🔑 For the individual person or
object located far away
🔑 Those used in front of distant and
plural names .
Example:
🔑Those children can speak French
in their school.
🔑Can you ate all those cakes ?
Distributive Adjectives
🔑shows that the things or person
are counted collectively . They
refer to members of a group as
individuals.
🔑Each , every , wither neither ,
any , one , both.
⚠EACH : indicate quantity individually .
Example :
🔑Each participant was asked to complete a
survey .
🔑 Each of us drink about 2 liters of water a
day.
⚠EVERY : indicate quantity collectively .
Example:
🔑My mother watches TV every day.
🔑Everyone takes turns cooking dinner in the
evenings..
⚠Either : indicate choices or possibilitie
s.
Examples:
🔑I dont know either of them .
🔑Either you buy it or you don't.
⚠Neither /Any : used to refer to one or som
e things out of any number of choices .
Examples :
🔑My mother isn't a teacher .Neither am I.
🔑 I will eat neither chicken nor fish tonight
.
⚠One : function as numerical expre
ssion
Examples:
🔑Can you buy this one ?
🔑 I will buy a new one.
⚠Both:indicates that two items ar
e being discussed equally.
Example:
🔑Both of them are in the house.
Predicate Adjectives
🔑 Adjective that Pop up after the
linking verb and modify the subject
of the sentence are known as
predicate adjectives.
Examples :
🔑 She is smart.
🔑 We are rich.
🔑 They are efficient
 Articles as Adjectives
🔑 there are three articles of adjective
(a , an , the )
🔑 the articles also act as adjectives in
sentence .They stand beside the
nouns they modify.
 Examples:
🔑 I Just adopt a dog.
🔑 This is an elephant .
🔑 Don't take away the Iguana
 Degrees of Adjectives
🔑 The degrees of an adjective express the
intensity of an adjective in increasing order .

POSITIVE
COMPARATIVE
SUPERLATIVE
 Used of Positive
🔑 it is used to show characteristics of
one thing(noun or pronoun )
Examples :
Happy. Old. Small.
Heavy. Good. Short
Strong. Bad Large
 Used of Comparative
🔑 It make comparison between two
things (not more than two )
🔑 "than" and "to" are used after a
comparative adjective in a sentence.
 Examples:
🔑A bus is bigger than a car .
🔑A bed is heavier than a chair.
🔑John is taller than Sara.
🔑You are three years older than me
🔑 A car runs faster than a bike
🔑The word 'to' is used rather than the wor
d 'that' ex: senior , junior , superior ,inferi
or .
🔑The word senior and junior are generally
used for comparison between official rank
s of two persons.
🔑The words superior and inferior are gene
rally used for comparison between qualitie
s of two things.
 Examples :
🔑 A professor is senior to a lecture.
🔑 He is junior to me .
🔑You dress is superior to mine .
🔑This product is inferior to the one I
used last year.
 Use of Superlative:
🔑 used to show a characteristic of one thing
in comparison to many other thing ( more
than one ) It compares one thing to many
other things.
🔑 expresses the highest intensity (quality pr
quantity ) of a thing in comparison to other
things.
Example:
🔑 John is the tallest boy in his clas
s.
🔑 A train is the fastest vehicle .
🔑 The easiest way to lose weight i
s to avoid sugary food
🔑This is the best book I have ever
studied.
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