Adjectives

Adjectives are words that describe nouns and pronouns.

Adjectives

• Adjectives of Quality
• Adjectives of Number
• Adjectives of Quantity
• Demonstrative Adjectives
• Possessive Adjectives
• Interrogative Adjectives
• Emphatic Adjectives

• Adjectives of Quality answer the question - of what kind?
  For example:
  
  • shiny, green apple


• Adjectives of Number answer the question - how many?
  They can be categorized as:
  
  • Cardinal Adjectives- one car, five hundred people
  • Ordinal Adjectives- the first person to climb Mt Everest, five hundred people
  • Indefinite Adjectives- a few books (countable), little water (uncountable)
  • Distributive Adjectives- each boy, every teacher


• Adjectives of Quantity answer the question - how much?
  For example:
  
  • some water
  • little honey


• Demonstrative Adjectives point out nouns
  For example:
  
  • those fish
  • that kite


• Possessive Adjectives show belonging and answer the question - whose?
  For example:
  
  • my fish bowl
  • their house

Difference between Possessive Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives

Read this sentence :

• The book is Minu's
If we want to replace the noun Minu with a possessive pronoun, we will write -
• The book is hers.

Some simple possessive pronouns are mine, his, hers, ours, theirs, yours.

Some simple possessive adjectives are my, his, her, our, their, your, its.

Interrogative Adjectives

Interrogative adjectives are used with nouns to ask questions.

What, which and whose can be used with nouns to ask questions.

Examples:

• What time is it?
• Which book are you reading?

Emphatic Adjectives

Sometimes, we use words like own and very to give our sentences emphasis, as in these sentences.

• I saw it with my own eyes.
• I found the very book I wanted.