Adjectives

Presenters: Cariscal, Marjhon S.

Pena, Rien Angelou
What is an adjective?

Adjectives comes from Latin nōmen adjectīvum. It is to

describe, or modify, nouns and pronouns. Essentially, they
provide the details that make nouns and pronouns more
specific. An adjective describes the quality or state of being of
a noun. This part of speech also describe the quantity or
number.
Types of Adjectives:
A. Descriptive Adjectives
B. Limiting Adjectives
C. Signals to Recognize Adjectives
A. Descriptive Adjectives:
1. Common Adjectives
2. Proper Adjectives
 Descriptive Adjective:

It assigns a quality or attribute to a noun or pronoun.

This helps you define your subject clearly and exactly.

Examples:
1. The Lord is gracious and righteous. Psalm 116:5
2. God is light. John 1:5
3. She is a clever girl.
Common Adjectives:
 A common adjective is a grammatical part of speech that describes a
noun (a person, place, thing, or idea). 
 A common adjective is an adjective that is not written with a capital 
letter. 

Examples:
1. You are altogether beautiful. (Songs of Songs 4:7)
Proper Adjective:
 The proper adjective used in a sentence needs to be
capitalized because they are based on names. It
modifies the noun and the pronoun that is used in
the sentence. Its function is different than that of the
other adjectives. They are like proper nouns, but it
functions as an adjective in a sentence because of
some additive words.
Examples:
1. I love Korean food.
2. Stephen Curry is an American basketball player.
3. Jill works in an Asian restaurant.
B. Limiting Adjectives:
1. Articles
2. Demonstrative Adjectives
3. Indefinite Adjectives
4. Interrogative Adjectives
5. Relative Adjectives
6. Possessive Adjectives
7. Numerical Adjectives
a. Cardinal
b. Ordinal
Limiting Adjectives:

Limiting adjectives are much more interested in restricting a

noun or pronoun than describing something about it.  Lack of
description is what makes limiting adjectives unique. Unlike most
adjectives, limiting adjectives restrict a noun or pronoun by singling
it out or stating it belongs to a specific group without describing it or
mentioning its qualities.
Examples:

Three women are eating on the sea side.

The tiny kitten is about to fall.
 Articles:
Basically, an article is an adjective. Like adjectives,
articles modify nouns. English has two articles: the and
a/an. “The” is used to refer to specific or particular
nouns; “a/an” is used to modify non-specific or non-
particular nouns. We call “the” the definite article and
“a/an” the indefinite article.
Articles:

Examples:
1. A brown rabbit hopped into the yard.
2. Jean visited an old mansion.
3. The giant Goliath was defeated by David.
4. The Ferrari is a luxurious brand of car.
Demonstrative Adjectives:
A demonstrative adjective is a special adjective
(often called a determiner) that identifies a noun 
or pronoun by expressing its position as near or far
(including in time). The demonstrative adjectives
are 'this,' 'that,' 'these,' and 'those.'
 Demonstrative Adjectives:

Examples:
1. This pandemic is really challenging.
2. Do not approach that beehive.
3. These perfumes smell nice.
4. Those luxurious cars are owned by Bill Gates.
Indefinite Adjectives:
An indefinite adjective is an adjective used to
describe a noun in a non-specific sense. The most
common indefinite adjectives
are any, each, few, many, much, most, several,
and some.
 Indefinite Adjectives:

Examples:
1. Many people believe in miracles.
2. The interview lasted only for a few minutes.
3. Would you like some tea?
4. Juan owned the most rubber shoes.
 Interrogative Adjectives:

An interrogative adjective is a word that

modifies a noun by asking a question.
Interrogative adjectives are also known as
interrogative determiners. The interrogative 
adjectives are "what," "which," and "whose."
Interrogative Adjectives:

Examples:
1. Which superpowers would you like to have?
2. What kind of student-athlete is Alyssa?
3. Whose pink wallet is this?
 Relative Adjectives:
  An adjective clause (also called relative clause) is
a dependent clause that modifies a noun or pronoun.
It tells which one or what kind. Adjective clauses
almost always come right after the nouns they
modify.
Relative Adjectives:

Examples:
1. My blue jersey, which used to be my dad’s, is inside
the closet.
2. Micah, who was a small guy, is running in the
hallway.
3. There is the bench that we are going to meet.
Possessive Adjectives:

The possessive adjectives

are my, your, his, her, its, our, their, and whose.
A possessive adjective sits before a noun (or a
pronoun) to show who or what owns it.
Possessive Adjectives:

Examples:
1. He got his looks from his mother.
2. We admire your perseverance.
3. I love to spend my time with my family.
Numerical Adjectives:
 Numeral Adjectives are those adjectives
which are used to denote the number of nouns
or the order in which they stand. They are also
commonly called Adjectives of Number.
 Definite Numeral Adjectives: are the set
of cardinal and ordinal numbers. The word definite
itself tells us that these adjectives tell us the exact
number of people or things. Definite Numeral
Adjectives are:
Cardinal numbers Ordinal numbers

one first

two second

three third

five fifth

ten tenth

thirteen thirteenth
Examples:
Ordinal adjectives:
Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon.
Rodrigo Roa Duterte is the sixteenth President of the
Philippines.

Cardinal adjectives:
There are eight oranges in the fruit basket.
Kevin is going to sell his two cars.
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