ADJECTIVE

Hanizah Anuar
 Definition
• “Adjective is a word naming an attribute of a noun or pronoun, such as
sweet, red, or technical.”
•  Adjective words cannot stand on their own however used to describe
nouns or pronouns or modify them
• For example:
• There is a tall man. (in this example, 'tall' is an adjective because it describes man.)
• He was eating healthy food. (here ‘healthy’ is an adjective as it is describing food.)
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1) Adjective of Quality or Descriptive Adjective
• Adjective of quality is also known as descriptive adjective as it describes the nature and
attribute of nouns or pronoun
• Descriptive adjectives are used to make sentences clearer, meaningful and complete however;
must be added at right place having right intent. 
• Descriptive adjectives are like honest, kind, large, bulky, thin, fat, beautiful, smart, ugly, etc.
• For Example:
• New Delhi is a large capital city of India having very old historical monuments.
• Neha is a thin and beautiful.
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• 2) Adjective of Quantity
• Adjective of quantity shows the approximate amount of a noun or pronoun
however do not provide exact numbers. It tells the amount of noun or pronoun in
relative or whole terms. Such as; few, little, enough, all, many, half, no, great,
etc.
• For Example:
• I have seen few people eating rice.
• Many people come every year to visit the fair.
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• 3) Adjective of Number or Numeral Adjective
• Adjective of number is also known as numeral adjective. It indicates the number of nouns and their place in
the sentence. Numeral adjective is categorized into three different sections :
• Definite Numeral Adjective
• Definite numeral adjectives are those adjectives which clearly show the exact number of nouns or its order.
• For example:
• One, two, three, four, twenty, thirty three, etc are known as cardinals.
• First, second, third, fourth, seventh, tenth, etc are known as ordinals.
• I saw two people playing football.
• It was tenth football match in the city.
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• Indefinite Numeral Adjective
• Indefinite numeral adjectives are those adjectives which do not show the
exact numerical amount of noun however give general idea of that
amount.
• For example:
• Many, some, any, few, all, several, etc.
• I saw only few people present at the meeting.
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• Distributive Numeral Adjective
• Distributive numeral adjectives are those adjectives which followed by a singular noun and a
singular verb. However, sometimes there is use of a plural noun and a singular verb by using
each of, either of, every one of, and neither of.
• For example:
• Either, each, neither, every, another, other, etc.
• Each leg has four fingers and one toe.
• Every child need care and love.
• Either method is wrong.
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• 4) Demonstrative Adjective
• Demonstrative adjectives are those adjectives which indicate a particular noun or
pronoun uses adjectives like this, these, that, and those.
• For example:
• That is my bag.
• I like this food very much.
• I really like playing with these
• Those flowers are looking very beautiful.
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• 5) Interrogative Adjective
• Interrogative adjectives are those adjectives which are used to ask questions and accompany
nouns. It is placed before noun in the sentence. Interrogative adjectives are like where, which,
what, and whose.
• For example:
• Where did I said I was going?
• What assignment did you missed out?
• Which is your favorite game?
• Whose lunch box is this?
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• 6) Coordinate Adjective
• Coordinate adjectives are those adjectives which appear in the sequence in order to
modify the same noun. Such type of adjectives are separated by the use of commas
or and (always comes before final adjective). They can be rearranged in a series.
• For example:
• dull, nice, rainy day, dark and stormy night
• He was a very kind, smart, loving human being.
• He was a loving, smart and generous human being.
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• 8) Possessive Adjective
• Possessive adjectives are those adjectives which we use to point out the noun
belongs to someone. Possessive adjectives are like My, our, your, her, his, their, and
its.
• For example:
• This is our school.
• It is her.
• Your dog is very kind.
The adjective is the enemy of the noun
This is sometimes said because, very often, if we use the precise noun we don't need an adjective.
For example, instead of saying "a large, impressive house" (2 adjectives + 1 noun)
we could simply say "a mansion" (1 noun).