Adjective

Adjective

Adjectives are the words that describe a noun or a pronoun

Types of adjective

1. Quantitative Adjectives

2. Demonstrative Adjectives

3. Descriptive Adjectives

4. Interrogative Adjectives

5. Possessive Adjectives

 Quantitative Adjectives

• This type of adjective describes or gives the quantity of noun or something. To be precise, it provides the information regarding “how many?” like the count.

• Examples:

• “How many candies do you own?” “I only have a single candy ”

Demonstrative Adjectives

• These type of adjectives are used to specify or indicate pronouns like “that”, “this”, “these”, “those”. Indirectly, they are used to point out the nouns or other objects.

• Examples:

• I love those paintings.

Descriptive Adjectives

• These adjectives are like the general one’s which describe both nouns and pronouns. That is they are typical “adjectives” in general.

• Examples:

• The small puppy was found yesterday.

Interrogative Adjectives

• They specify the question types regarding like “what?”, “which?”, “whose?”. It’s important to know that these can be found before nouns or pronouns.

• Examples:

• What type of dress do you want?

Possessive Adjectives

• These adjectives describe where does the object belong to. So they shows the literal pronoun usage in the sentence.

• Examples:

• “Whose book is that?” That’s mine.