PARTS OF SPEECH

Adjective
ADJECTI
VE
A word that refers to a characteristic of a noun
or pronoun.
Examples:
My
🢝 best friend loves chocolate cake.
The
🢝 house had a low roof.
1. Descriptive Adjective or Adjectives of Quality
🢝Show the quality of a noun or pronoun.
🢝Adjectives of Quality answer the question : Of what kind ?
🢝Examples:
🢝Pretty girl, yellow flower, cute puppy, etc.
2. Proper Adjective
🢝Adjectives formed from proper nouns are called proper adjectives.
🢝Examples:
🢝Italian pizza, French wines, Turkish tobacco, etc.
3. Adjectives of Quantity
🢝Show the quantity of a noun or pronoun.
🢝Adjectives of Quantity answer the question: How
much?
🢝Examples:
🢝He showed much patience.
🢝He has lost all his wealth.
4. Numeral Adjectives or Adjectives of Number
🢝Show how many persons or things are meant.
🢝Examples:
🢝There are several mistakes in your
exercise.
🢝Sunday is the first day of the week.
Numeral Adjectives are of three
kinds:-
1. 🢝Definite
2. 🢝Indefinite
3. 🢝Distributive
1. Definite Numeral Adjectives
🢝 Definite Numeral Adjectives are the set of
cardinal and ordinal numbers.
🢝Definite Numeral Adjectives are:

Cardinal Numbers Ordinal Numbers

One First
Two Second
Three Third
Four Fourth
Five Fifth

Examples:
Sara
🢝 is the second girl in our class.
There
🢝 are eight oranges in the bowl.
2. Indefinite Numeral Adjectives
🢝They do not give us exact number. Indefinite
Numeral Adjectives are:
Few, all, no, several, some, many,
most
Examples:
🢝There are few bottles of wine in the fridge.
🢝Several men came looking for you.
3. Distributive Numeral Adjectives
🢝Adjectives which refer to each one of a number.
🢝Distributive Numeral Adjectives are:
Each, every, either, neither
🢝Examples:
🢝England expects that every man will do his duty.
🢝Each boy must take his turn.
5. Possessive Adjectives
🢝Express ownership or possession.
🢝Examples:
🢝 He is my brother.
🢝 Our laptops are new.
🢝 The cat is moving its tail.
🢝 The people welcomed their leaders.
🢝 Whose parents are they?
6. Demonstrative Adjective
🢝 Used to refer people or things near or far
from the speaker in terms of distance and time.
🢝Point out which person or thing is meant.
🢝Examples:
🢝This Boy, That Chair, These Shoes, Those Pens, etc.
7. Distributive Adjectives
🢝Used to refer people or things individually among
many.
🢝Distributive Adjectives are:
each, every, either, neither, any, one
Examples:
🢝Drink a few sips of water after taking each
medicine.
🢝Every employee was given bonus.
8. Interrogative Adjective
🢝They used with noun to ask questions.
🢝Interrogative Adjectives are:
Who, whom, whose, which, what
🢝Examples:
🢝Which T-shirt do you want to buy?
🢝Whose Umbrella is this?
9. Emphasizing Adjectives
🢝Used to emphasize a noun.
🢝‘Very’ and ‘own’ are the most commonly used
emphasizing adjectives
🢝Examples:
🢝Mind your own business.
🢝That very CD I wanted to have and I got it.
10. Exclamatory Adjectives
🢝They give the sense of exclamation.
🢝Examples:
🢝What a scene!
🢝How nice!
🢝It is such an expensive car!
Three degrees of Adjective.
🢝Positive Degree
🢝Comparative Degree
🢝Superlative Degree
1. Positive Degree

🢝Describe the quality of a noun or pronoun.

Examples:
🢝Ali is a tall boy.
🢝She is a beautiful girl.
2. Comparative Degree

🢝It is used to compare one noun or pronoun with

another.
Examples:
🢝Ali is taller than Ahmad.
🢝She is more beautiful than Sara.
3. Superlative Degree

🢝It is used to compare one thing with all.

Examples:
🢝Ali is tallest boy.
🢝Sara is most beautiful girl.
Attributive Adjective
🢝 Adjectives in first position – before the noun –
are called attributive adjectives.
Examples:
🢝That is a cute puppy.
🢝That was a clever idea.
Predicative Adjective
🢝When adjective comes after noun, it is predicative.
Examples:
🢝That puppy looks cute.
🢝I am getting tired.
ORDER OF ADJECTIVES
More than one adjectives
🢝Put the adjectives in a specific order.
🢝0rder is important.
 Purpose:
Opinion: Size: Shape: Colour: Origin: Material:
Age: old, writing
pretty, huge, round, black, British, woolen,
young, (paper),
horrible, tiny, big, square, red, Chinese,
new school
lovely little triangular yellow French wooden,
(shoes)
silk
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