GROUP 4

What is
ADJECTIVE?
GROUP 4
 WHAT IS ADJECTIVE?
An adjective is a word that modifies or describes a noun or
pronoun.

An adjective often comes BEFORE a noun:

• A green car
• A dark sky
• An interesting story

And sometimes an adjective comes AFTER a verb:

• My car is green.
• The sky becomes dark.
• His story seemed interesting.
3 DEGREE’S OF ADJECTIVES AND USES
ABSOLUTE
ADJETIVE
 What is a absulute adjective?

The positive degree of adjectives is the basic form of an

adjective and is used to provide information about the
quality or characteristic of the noun it is modifying. It
describes a noun or pronoun without making any
comparisons to other nouns or pronouns.
Examples:

• A giraffe has a tall height

• The speed of a cheetah is fast

COMPARATI
VE
ADJECTIVE
 What is a comparative adjective?

A comparative adjective is an adjective used to compare

two people or things. To form the comparative degree, we
generally add “-er” to the end of a one-syllable adjective
or use “more” + the adjective for adjectives with two or
more syllables, and the word “than” is generally used
after.
 Which is taller?

giraffe camel
Answer A giraffe is taller than a camel.
:
 Which is faster?

cheetah jaguar
Answer A cheetah is faster than a jaguar.
:
What is a superlative adjective?

superlative adjective is an adjective used in

comparisons to describe something as
being of the highest degree or extreme.
What is a superlative adjective?

EXAMPLE
• Canada, China and Russia are big countries. But
Russia is the biggest.
• Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world.

Canada, China and Russia are big countries. But Russia is the biggest.
Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
TYPES OF ADJECTIVES
Proper adjectives

also describe people, places and things,

but they are based on names and therefore
need to be capitalized, like the names.
DESCRIPTIVE
ADJECTIVE
 WHAT IS DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVE?

Descriptive Adjective is one of the types of Adjectives

and it is used to add meaning to Noun and Pronoun by
describing its qualities.

It can describe many factors such as:

• size
• colour
• shape
• smell
• character
 EXAMPLES OF DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVE IN SENTENCE

• Her brother has charming face.

• Our hostel warden behaves like a cruel person.
• John is a fantastic basketball player.
• Sometimes he talks like a genuine person.
• My neighbor is a nice guy.
 QUANTITATIVE
ADJECTIVE
Quantitative adjectives are
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the adjectives that modifies
a noun by indicating any
number or any quantity of
countable or uncountable
nouns
EXAMPLES
:
• I have one book on my shelf

• There are two apples in the basket

 NUMERAL ADEJCTIVE

Numeral adjective words

are used to depict either the
number of nouns or
pronouns and also in place
of certain order. Sometimes,
it is also defined as the state
of the number of positions.
EXAMPLES
:
• Some women are upset.

• I wrote many letters to you.

DEMONSTRATIVE
ADJECTIVE

are special adjectives or

determiners used to identify or
express the relative position of a
noun in time or space
 DISTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVE

are used to refer to members of a group individually.

Examples of distributive adjectives include each,
every, either, and neither
 INTERROGATIVE
ADJECTIVE
-An interrogative adjective, also known as
interrogative determiner, is an adjective that
modifies a noun by asking a question. The
interrogative adjectives in english are ‘what’,
‘which’, and ‘whose’.
 INTERROGATIVE
ADJECTIVE
-An interrogative adjective, also known as
interrogative determiner, is an adjective that modifies
a noun by asking a question. The interrogative
adjectives in english are ‘what’, ‘which’, and
‘whose’.
EXAMPLES
:
• Whose bag is this?

• Did you find out whose keys those

were?
 POSSESIVE
ADJECTIVE
A possessive adjective sits before a noun (or a
pronoun) to show who or what owns it. The
possessive adjectives are my, your, his, her, its, our,
their, and whose.
 EXAMPLES OF POSSESIVE ADJECTIVE IN SENTENCE

• Where is Jane? I have her hat

• The boys have left their toys in the garden.
• think her dog has eaten my sandwich.
• The shark is over there. I can see its fin.
• She likes your house
end of discussion