Types of Adjectives

Types of Adjectives

1. Adjective of Quality
2. Adjective of Quantity
3. Adjective of Number

Nouns - names of people, places, animals and things!

Example: The girl is going to the park.


Girl and Park are the nouns.

The tall girl went to the giant park.

tall and giant are the adjectives - that describe the noun.

Open Ended

Give me examples of Adjectives that describe a girl.

Adjective of Quality

• describes the quality of the noun.

• For example: Beautiful girl, smart boy, populated country, bright sun.

Open Ended

Give me examples of Adjective of Quality:

_______girl

Adjective of Quantity

• It tells us how much of a thing means.

• We need to ask  HOW MUCH? to the noun.

• Examples: some, enough, much, little, no, any etc

• For example:
  He borrowed some money from  me.
  How much money? SOME

Multiple Choice

Identify the Adjective of Quantity in the sentence:

He was so hungry, he ate the whole cake.

• hungry

• whole

• cake

• ate

Adjective of Number

• it tells us how many persons or things there are or in what order they are.

• Examples: any numbers, several, positions (first, second, third)

• Examples:
  Tim sits in the first row.

• I had  three chocolates today.

• Several guests came home yesterday.

Poll

Identify the Adjective of Number in the sentence:

There are 12 glasses of juice on the table.

• 12

• glasses

• table

• juice