Adjectives

Adjective

What is an adjective ?

Adjectives are words that describe or modify other

words, making your writing and speaking much more

specific, and a whole lot more interesting.

Examples: sharp, small, blue, glamorous,

mischievous, intelligent

Adjective

Adjectives are usually positioned before the noun or
pronoun that they modify. Some sentences contain
multiple adjectives.

Adjective examples in sentences:
1.

They live in a big, beautiful bungalow.

2. Since it’s a hot day, Lisa is wearing a sleeveless
dress.

3. On her birthday, Brenda received an antique vase
filled with fragrant flowers.

Multiple Choice

The old shoe was full of mud.

• shoe

• was

• old

• of

Multiple Choice

Mary has a blue folder for her papers.

• Mary

• blue

• her

• papers

Multiple Choice

The small baby crawled to his mother.

• The

• mother

• his

• small

Multiple Choice

The happy kids ran out the door to recess.

• happy

• ran

• recess

• door

• Possessive Adjectives
• Demonstrative Adjectives
• Numbers Adjectives
• Interrogative Adjectives
• Attributive Adjectives

Types of Adjectives

Possessive

adjectives

are

used

to

indicate

possession. Possessive adjectives include my, your,
our, his, her ,their and its.

Possessive adjectives in sentences:

1.

I think you forgot your purse.

2.

We began our work at noon.

3.

Malacca is famous for its historical buildings.

Possessive Adjectives

Multiple Choice

1. Do you like______ shirt?

• my

• mine

Multiple Choice

2. ______ school is very beautiful.

• ours

• our

Multiple Choice

3. I like ______ bike.

• her

• hers

Multiple Choice

4. Your pen is green and ____ is green too.

• my

• mine

Demonstrative adjectives are used to indicate or
demonstrate specific people, animals, or things.

These, those, this and that are demonstrative
adjectives.

Demonstrative adjectives in sentences:

1. These books belong to Johnathan.

2. This novel is one of my favourite collections.

3. Please put those cookies on the blue plate.

Demonstrative Adjectives

Multiple Choice

Look at ____ the birds up there in the tree.

• This

• That

• These

• Those

Multiple Choice

Are _____ your books over there on the table?

• That

• Those

• This

• These

Multiple Choice

My umbrella is right here. _____ is my umbrella.

• These

• This

• That

• Those

Multiple Choice

Do you know ____ person over there by the restaurant?

• this

• that

• these

• those

Numbers Adjectives

When they’re used in sentences, numbers are almost
always adjectives. You can tell that a number is an
adjective when it answers the question “How many?”

1. The stagecoach was pulled by a team of six.

2. He ate 23 hotdogs during the contest, and was

sick afterwards.

Like all other types of adjectives, interrogative
adjectives modify nouns. There are three interrogative
adjectives: which, what, and whose. All three of these
words are used to ask questions.

Interrogative adjectives in sentences:

1. Which option sounds best to you?

2. What time should we go?

3. Whose socks are those?

Interrogative Adjectives

Attributive adjectives denote specific traits, qualities,
or features.

There are different kinds of attributive adjectives:

Observation adjectives indicate value or subjective
measures. Examples: real,perfect, best, interesting,
beautiful, cheapest

Attributive Adjectives

Size and shape adjectives indicate measurable,
objective qualities including specific physical properties.
Examples: small, large, square, round, poor, wealthy,
slow .

Age adjectives denote specific ages in numbers, as well
as

general

ages.

Examples:

old,

young,

new,

five-year-old.

Color adjectives indicate colour. Examples: pink, yellow,
blue.

Origin adjectives indicate the source of the noun,
whether it’s a person, place, animal or thing.
Examples: American, Canadian, Mexican, French.

Material adjectives denote what something is made
of. Examples: cotton, gold, wool.

Qualifier adjectives are often regarded as part of a
noun. They make nouns more specific. Examples: log
cabin, luxury car, pillow cover.

When two objects or persons are being compared, the
comparative form of the adjective is used.

The comparative adjective can be formed in two ways:

Adding –er to the positive form of the adjective.

(When words of two syllables ending with ‘y’, change
‘y’ to ‘i’, and add –er to the end of the word.)

Adding the word more before the adjective.

.

Forming Adjective:
Comparative Adjectives

For example:

1. My essay is longer than yours.

2. This doll is prettier.

3. She is more beautiful than her sister.

Multiple Choice

This test is ...... than the last one.

• easier

• easy

• more easy

Multiple Choice

Today is ...... than yesterday.

• hot

• hotter

• more hot

Multiple Choice

Cheetahs are ...... than humans.

• fast

• faster

• more fast

Multiple Choice

Skateboarding is ...... than cycling.

• dangerous

• dangerouser

• more dangerous

The superlative is used to say what thing or person has
the most of a particular quality within a group or of its
kind. The superlative can be formed in two ways:

Adding –est to the positive form of the adjective.

(When words of two syllables ending with ‘y’, change

‘y’ to ‘i’, and add –est to the end of the word)

Adding the word most before the adjective.

Forming Adjective:
Superlatives Adjectives

For example:

1.

Shirley’s hair is the shortest among all her siblings.

2.

This doll is the prettiest.

3.

This is the most beautiful dress I have ever seen.

Multiple Choice

We are all eight, but Gary is ....

• the youngest

• youngest

• the more young

Multiple Choice

He earned the __________ grades in the class.

• gooder

• more gooder

• best

• bestest

Multiple Choice

I am______player on the team.

• the baddest

• the worst

• worse than

The positive form is used in cases where there are no
differences between the two compared things or persons.

To form the positive, we use the word as before and after
the positive form of the adjective.

For example: Danny is as smart as Phillip.

She is as beautiful as her elder sister.

Forming Adjective: Positive form

Certain adjectives have irregular forms in the
comparative and superlative degrees:

Exceptions (Irregular Forms)

Positive

Comparative

Superlative

Good
Bad

Little

Much/many/
some

Better
Worse
Less
More

Best
Worst
Least
Most

Source

Adapted

from

:

https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/adjectives/