ADJECTIVES

   

Adjectives: An adjective is a word that tells you more about a noun or a pronoun. An adjective usually appears before the noun or pronoun being described. Sometimes, though, the adjective appears after the noun or the pronoun, later in the sentence. It may be describing the noun or pronoun, point it out or tell us its number or quality.

 

Adjectives have different endings.

 

·       Some adjectives end in -ful or -less.

E.g., beautiful, careful, careless, faithful, harmless, harmful, useful, useless, homeless, playful, painful, painless, colorful, colorless, hopeful, hopeless, leafless, sleeveless etc.

 

·       Some adjectives end in -y.

E.g., dirty, noisy, oily, sleepy, sunny, stormy, muddy etc.

 

·       Some adjectives end in -ive.

E.g., active, attractive, creative, expensive, talkative etc.

 

·       Some adjectives end in -ing.

E.g., caring, interesting, loving, matching, smiling, cunning, dazzling etc.

 

·       Some adjectives end in -ly. (Many adverbs also end in -ly.)

E.g., costly, elderly, lively, lonely, lovely, weekly, daily, friendly etc.

 

·       Some adjectives end in -able, -al, -en, -ible, -ish and -ous.

E.g., Broken, famous, poisonous, childish, national, comfortable, musical, dangerous, terrible, foolish, woolen, horrible, wooden, loveable etc.

 

Adjectives Of Quality: These adjectives describe a noun or a pronoun.

E.g., old, short, sweet, large, black, strong, polluted, square, well dressed………...

Adjectives Of Quantity: These adjectives are used for things that cannot be counted. These adjectives answer the question “How much?”

E.g., whole, enough, little, all, hundred, no, some, sufficient, any, few, most, heavily, empty, great, couple, half, much, insufficient, abundant, light, numerous, single, substantial, hundreds, double, sparse, each, full, huge, several, significant, couple of days, a lot, too, many, heavy, lots of, a little bit, plenty of, enough of…………

 

Adjectives Of Number: These adjectives are used with countable things. These adjectives answer the question “How many?”

E.g., First, five, Several, most, last, first, many, two, all, few…………..

 

Demonstrative Adjectives: Used to point out which person, place, animal or thing is meant. These adjectives answer the question “Which one?”

The four most commonly used demonstrative adjectives are these, this, that and those.

 

Interrogative Adjectives: Used with a noun or pronoun to ask questions. There are only three interrogative adjectives. They are which, whose and what.

 

Possessive Adjectives: A possessive adjective modifies a noun by identifying who has ownership or possession of it. These adjectives answer the question “whose”?

The most common possessive adjectives are my, your, her, his, its, our, their and whose.

Note: We never use apostrophe with possessive adjectives.

E.g.

·       Your house is beautiful.

·       His cat is adorable.

·       Their car is old.

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