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Types of adjectives:
1. Descriptive Adjectives:
A descriptive adjective is a word that describes nouns and pronouns. Most of the adjectives belong to this type. These adjectives provide information and attribute to the nouns/pronouns they modify or describe. Descriptive adjectives are also called qualitative adjectives. This takes us from “the brother” to “the evil brother” or from “the daisy” to “the perky daisy.
2. Quantitative Adjectives:
Quantitative adjectives describe the quantity of something. Now, we don’t just have a noun or pronoun. We can also answer the question, “How much?” or “How many?” This turns words like “one” or “two” into adjectives.
3. Proper Adjectives:
Proper adjectives are the adjective form of proper nouns. When proper nouns modify or describe other nouns/pronouns, they become proper adjectives. ‘Proper’ means ‘specific’ rather than ‘formal’ or ‘polite.’ A proper adjective allows us to summarize a concept in just one word. Instead of writing/saying ‘a food cooked in Chinese recipe, you can write/say ‘Chinese food’.
4. Demonstrative Adjectives:
A demonstrative adjective directly refers to something or someone. Demonstrative adjectives include the words: this, that, these, those. It works alone and does not precede a noun, but a demonstrative adjective always comes before the word it modifies.
5. Possessive Adjectives:
A possessive adjective indicates possession or ownership. It suggests the belongingness of something to someone/something. Some of the most used possessive adjectives are my, his, her, our, their, your. All these adjectives always come before a noun. Unlike possessive pronouns, these words demand a noun after them.
6. Interrogative Adjectives:
An interrogative adjective asks a question. An interrogative adjective must be followed by a noun or a pronoun. The interrogative adjectives are: which, what, whose. These words will not be considered adjectives if a noun does not follow right after them. ‘Whose’ also belongs to the possessive adjective type.
7. Indefinite Adjectives:
An indefinite adjective describes or modifies a noun unspecifically. They provide indefinite/unspecific information about the noun. The common indefinite adjectives are few, many, much, most, all, any, each, every, either, nobody, several, some, etc.
8. Articles as Adjectives:
Articles also modify the nouns. So, articles are also adjectives. Articles determine the specification of nouns. ‘A’ and ‘an’ are used to refer to an unspecific noun, and ‘the’ is used to refer to a specific noun.
9. Compound Adjectives:
When compound nouns/combined words modify other nouns, they become a compound adjective. This type of adjective usually combines more than one word into a single lexical unit and modifies a noun. They are often separated by a hyphen or joined together by a quotation mark.
10. The Degree of Adjectives:
There are three degrees of adjectives: Positive, comparative, superlative.
These degrees are applicable only for descriptive adjectives.
11. Sequence Adjectives:
Sequence adjectives are akin to quantitative adjectives. Instead of specifying “two children” or “six puppies,” you can assign an order to your numbers. They use the appropriately named ordinal numbers as ordinal adjectives.
12. Distributive Adjectives:
Distributive adjectives point out specific entities. They single out a particular noun or pronoun as modify or draw attention, to it.
13. Coordinate Adjectives:
Coordinate adjectives are small groups of adjectives that band together to modify the same noun. They’re separated by the word “and” or with commas.
