Adjective

Def: It is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun. (How a noun or a pronoun is.)

Eg: Good boy, intelligent girl, black dog, beautiful flower, tasty food, etc.

Types: Adjectives can be divided into classes that are given as follows:

• Descriptive.
• Amount and Number.
• Indicative.

i) Descriptive adjectives can be classified into two types:

a) Proper Adjective: They are the adjectives that are formed from proper

nouns. Eg: He is an Indian player.

This is a French wine.

b) Adjective of Quality: They are the adjectives that refer to any quality of a noun or a pronoun.

Eg: Hari is an honest person.

He is a lazy boy.

ii) Adjectives denoting Amount and Number can be classified into two types:

a) Amount or Adjective of Quality are the words that denotes the amount

of any uncountable noun. Some, Much, No, Great, Sufficient, little, All, Whole, Half, etc are

Amount or Adjective of Quality.

Eg: Give me some money.

You drank all the milk.

b) Number again can be divided into two types:

• Definite Numerals: This is of three types:

Cardinal- One, Two, Three, Four, etc

Ordinal- First, Second, Third, Fourth, etc.

Multiplicative- Single, Double, Triple, Four fold, etc.

• Indefinite Numerals- The words like Many, Some, All, Few, Every, Most, Several, No, etc, are indefinite.

iii) Indicative Adjectives can be classified into seven types:

a) Demonstrative: Words like 'This, These, That, Those, All, etc' when used as adjectives, then they are

demonstrative adjectives.

Eg: This bat is mine.

All these boy are from Burdwan.

b) Distributive: Words like 'Each, Every, Either, Neither, etc' when refers to every individuals among

several, they are distributive adjectives.

Eg: Each question carries ten marks.

Everybody is requested to be present.

c) Possessive: Words like 'My, Your, His, Its, Their, Her, Our, etc' that are formed from the possessive case

of a pronoun, they are called possessive adjectives.

Eg: This is our house.

Your son is with me.

d) Emphatic: Words like 'Very, Own, etc' that emphasizes on noun, are called emphatic noun.

Eg: This is the very ball that we saw yesterday.

My own friend has betrayed me.

e) Interrogative: The words like 'What, Which, Whose, etc' when sits before a noun and used as an

adjective for questioning, are called interrogative adjective.

Eg: Whose shirt is this?

What game is he playing?

Which book does he want?

f) Relative: Relative pronouns like 'Which and What' when used as adjectives, then they are relative

adjectives.

Eg: I did what was possible for me.

I stood first in the exam, which fact caused my happiness.

g) Exclamatory: When 'What' is used for exclamation, then it is exclamatory adjective.

Eg: What an idea!

What a result!