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Understanding Adjectives: Types & Examples

An adjective is a word that describes a noun and provides additional information about its qualities. Adjectives typically precede the nouns they modify but can also follow linking verbs. There are different types of adjectives including adjectives of quality, quantity, demonstrative, possessive, interrogative, and distributive adjectives. Each type serves a specific grammatical function such as describing a quality, indicating an amount, pointing out a noun, showing ownership, asking questions, or denoting items separately.

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Understanding Adjectives: Types & Examples

An adjective is a word that describes a noun and provides additional information about its qualities. Adjectives typically precede the nouns they modify but can also follow linking verbs. There are different types of adjectives including adjectives of quality, quantity, demonstrative, possessive, interrogative, and distributive adjectives. Each type serves a specific grammatical function such as describing a quality, indicating an amount, pointing out a noun, showing ownership, asking questions, or denoting items separately.

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ADJECTIVES

A word that names a quality . It is added to a noun to describe it.

Explanation

An adjective commonly stands before the noun or pronoun it qualifies, but it may also
occur as a complement to a verb of being.

Example

Adjective Noun
Green Grass
Blue Dress
Deep Sea
Poor Man
Happy Child
Beautiful Picture
New Building
Fat Woman
White Dog
Clever Boy
Hungry Cat

An adjective that is separated from its noun by a verb, and thus forms part of the
predicate, is called a predicate adjective. The predicate adjective are separated from
their nouns by verbs of being, “ is “, “ was “.

Adjective Noun Predicative adjective


Green Grass The grass is green
Dark Night The night is dark
Blue Dress Her dress is blue
Deep Sea The sea is deep
Poor Man That man was poor
Happy Child That child is happy
White Cat My cat was white
Black Bird The bird is black
Clever Boy The boy is clever
Hungry Dog The dog was hungry

Kinds Of Adjectives

No Type Function Example


1. Adjective of quality It shows what kind or quality a Good, beautiful,
thing is happy, big, small,
etc.
2. Adjective of quantity Show how much or how many All, some, many,
of a thing is meant few, three, fourth,
etc.
3. Demonstrative Points out or shows the person This, that, these,
adjective or thing meant those.
4. Possessive Shows ownership or My, your, his, her,
adjective possession. It indicate that their, etc.
something belongs to someone
or something.
5. Interrogative Asks a question Which, what,
adjective whose
6. Distributive Shows that the person or thing Each, every, either,
adjective shown by the noun are taken neither, etc
singly (one by one) or in
separate lots.

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