Adjective

What is an adjective?

__An adjective is a part of speech that gives information a noun or a pronoun by qualifying, specifying or describing it.

Most often an adjective modifies a noun by answering one of these following questions:

___Which?

___What kind?

___How many?

Example:

- Paper is an important thing. (Answer the question “What king of thing?”)

- Five or six gunmen attack the area. (Answer the question “How many gunmen?”)

- The old man tells him the story. (Answer the question “Which man?”)

Types:

• Adjective of quality
• Adjective of quantity
• Adjective of Number
• Demonstrative Adjective
• Distributive Adjective
• Possessive Adjective
• Interrogative Adjective

Adjective of quality:

It tells about the qualities of something or someone. Such as great, good, bad, wise, poor, nice, happy, pretty, angry, blue etc.

See examples:

- He gives me a great idea.

- Jerry is a good boy.

- We are ready.

Note: Adjective of quality answer the question: How or what kind?

Adjective of quantity:

It indicates the quantity of a noun or pronoun. Such as some, little, much, enough, whole, sufficient, all, none, more, half, no etc.

Examples:

- The glass has a little water.

- The whole community congratulate the president.

- She wants all the books.

Note: Adjective of quantity answer the question: How many or much?

Adjective of number:

It express the number or order of something or someone. Such as one, two, and three… first, second, third… single, double, triple, quadruple etc.

Example:

- He can eat ten bananas at a time.

- Meghla is the first girl in the class.

- The company does not need to hire even a single person.

Adjective of number is to types Definite and Indefinite.

Definite Numeric adjectives are of three kinds.

Such as

- Cardinal (one, two…),

- Ordinal (first, second)

- Multiplicative (Single, double…)

Demonstrative Adjective:

When demonstrative pronouns are used to specify the nouns or pronouns. Such as this, that, those, these etc.

Example:

- This plan is good.

- That is her choice.

- These are the suggestion to follow.

Distributive Adjective:

It tells about the distributive state of a noun. Such as every, each, neither, either, both etc.

Example:

- Every novel in the series is popular.

- Each player will get the reward.

- Both the girls are praised by the teacher.

Possessive Adjective:

It shows the possession or belonging in the sentence. Such as his, her, him, my, our, your, their etc.

Example:

- This is her cell phone.

- I have seen their house.

- Our house is tow stored house.

Interrogative Adjective:

Interrogative Adjective modifies nouns in interrogative sentence. Such as which, what, whose etc.

Example:

- What kind of man he is?

- Whose phone is this?

- Which program are you listening?