Adjectives
Adjectives
Introduction
Everything in this world has a description and a quality. It can be either good or bad. Without the quality or description we will not be able to know about it and also will not be able to differentiate between.
Same rule applies for the sentences. If we are not able to describe noun or pronoun in a sentence then we will not be able to know about it in a better way.
Adjectives provide us with this power. They are a very important part of a sentence. Adjectives help us in knowing more about the subject and an object. They describe about the quality of the subject or the object and helps us in visualizing.
Some examples of adjectives are green, red, old, young, big, small, small and fast. Adjectives tell us about color, size, shape, taste, odor, texture, sound, number, weather and ownership.
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Types of adjectives
There are various types of adjectives and we will be discussing about them:
- Descriptive adjectives- These adjectives describe the quality of a noun or a pronoun with an attribute. Some examples are blue book, fast car and big apple.
- Distributive adjectives– These adjectives refer to a single noun. Generally, they appear before the noun and are used with single nouns. Some examples are any, each, every, neither, and either.
- Possessive adjectives– These adjectives shows ownership. Some examples are her, his, their, whose, your, its, our, and my.
- Interrogative adjectives– These adjectives ask a question. Some examples are what, which and whose.
- Indefinite adjectives– These adjectives are non-specific and do not describe the noun and pronoun clearly. Some examples are no, few, any, several, and many.
- Sequence adjectives– These adjectives give numbers to nouns. Some examples are first, second, third and fourth.
- Proper adjectives– These adjectives come from a name and always start with a capital letter. To be more precise, these adjectives are made up of proper nouns. Some examples are Indian food, Indian music, American culture, Spanish guitar, Chinese people and Buddhist temple.
- Quantitative adjectives– These adjectives answers the questions about how many or how much. Some examples are- I have two books and she has four pets.
- Adjectival adjectives– These adjectives modifies words that are noun but can be used as an adjective. When we use one noun to describe another noun, the first one becomes an adjective. Some examples are history teacher, horse race, love story, cricket ball and tennis shoes.
- Compound adjectives– These adjectives have two words which are hyphenated. Some examples are short-haired, narrow-minded, middle-aged and record-breaking.
- Positive adjectives– These adjectives describe something without comparing it to anything else. Some examples are the girl is beautiful, the car is fast and the boy is smart.
- Comparative adjectives– These adjectives are used to compare between things. But we have to keep in mind that the things should be only two and not more than two. Some examples are older, faster, slower, younger and cheaper.
- Superlative adjectives– These adjectives are used to show the highest and extreme level of a quality which anything can possess. Again, we have to keep in mind about when to use them. They can only be used with three or more things and not lesser. Some examples are oldest, fastest, slowest, fastest, youngest and fastest.
- Gradable adjectives– These adjectives refer to the words whose quality or description can be graded and can vary in intensity. These adjectives are also known as qualitative adjectives. Some examples are busy, hot, cold, happy, strong and weak.
- Non Gradable adjective– These are the adjectives which cannot be graded. Non Gradable adjectives are used alone. Some examples are freezing, dead, impossible, digital and analog.
