Adjectives and Their kinds

 

Adjectives and Their Kinds

What is an Adjective?

An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun.
It gives more information about the quality, quantity, number, or state of the noun.

👉 Examples:

• Riya is a beautiful girl.
• He has five apples.
• The water is cold.

Here, beautiful, five, and cold are adjectives.

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Kinds of Adjectives

There are six main kinds of adjectives:

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1. Adjectives of Quality (Descriptive Adjectives)

They describe the kind or quality of a person or thing.
👉 What kind of person or thing?

Examples:

• She is a brave girl.
• It is a beautiful flower.
• This is a large house.

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2. Adjectives of Quantity

They tell how much of something is meant.
👉 How much?

Examples:

• I have some money.
• She ate little rice.
• There is enough water in the tank.

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3. Adjectives of Number

They show how many persons or things are meant or in what order they stand.
👉 How many? / In what order?

Examples:

• I have two pens.
• He stood first in the class.
• Several people attended the meeting.

(Adjectives of number are further divided into: definite, indefinite, and distributive.)

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4. Demonstrative Adjectives

They point out which person or thing is meant.
👉 Which one?

Examples:

• This book is mine.
• Those apples are sweet.
• That car belongs to my uncle.

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5. Interrogative Adjectives

They are used with nouns to ask questions.
👉 Which? What? Whose?

Examples:

• Which pen is yours?
• What color do you like?
• Whose book is this?

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6. Possessive Adjectives

They show possession or ownership.
👉 Whose?

Examples:

• My dress is new.
• Our school is very big.
• His father is a doctor.

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Summary Table

Kind of Adjective	Tells About	Example
Quality	What kind	A beautiful girl
Quantity	How much	Some milk
Number	How many / which order	Two pens, first prize
Demonstrative	Which one	This car, those boys
Interrogative	Asking questions	Which color, whose bag
Possessive	Ownership	My book, their house

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Pronoun and kinds of pronouns

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🌟 Definition:

A pronoun is a word used in place of a noun to avoid repetition.

Example:

• Riya is a good girl. She helps everyone.
  (Here she replaces Riya.)

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🧩 Kinds of Pronouns:

1. Personal Pronouns

Used for people or things directly.

• Examples: I, we, you, he, she, it, they
• Example sentences:
  • I am a student.
  • They are playing outside.

Forms:

Person	Singular	Plural
1st	I, me	we, us
2nd	you	you
3rd	he, she, it, him, her	they, them

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2. Possessive Pronouns

Show ownership or possession.

• Examples: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs
• Example: This book is mine.

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3. Reflexive Pronouns

Show action done by the subject to itself.

• Examples: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves
• Example: He hurt himself.

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4. Demonstrative Pronouns

Used to point out specific things.

• Examples: this, that, these, those
• Example: This is my bag. Those are yours.

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5. Interrogative Pronouns

Used to ask questions.

• Examples: who, whom, whose, which, what
• Example: Who is your teacher?

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6. Relative Pronouns

Used to join two sentences and refer to a noun mentioned before.

• Examples: who, whom, whose, which, that
• Example: The girl who won the prize is my friend.

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7. Indefinite Pronouns

Refer to persons or things not specific.

• Examples: someone, anyone, everyone, no one, each, all, few, many, some, none
• Example: Someone is knocking at the door.

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8. Distributive Pronouns

Refer to members of a group one at a time.

• Examples: each, either, neither
• Example: Each of the students got a prize.

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9. Reciprocal Pronouns

Show mutual action or relationship.

• Examples: each other, one another
• Example: The two friends help each other.

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🧠 Quick Tip:

Pronouns make sentences shorter and smoother by avoiding repetition of noun

Simple explanation of Noun

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🌸 What is a Noun?

A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
It answers the question Who? or What?

🟢 Examples:

• Person: teacher, doctor, Rahul
• Place: school, city, garden
• Thing: book, car, pen
• Idea: love, honesty, happiness

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🧩 Types of Nouns

1. Proper Nouns

Names of specific people, places, or things.

• Always start with a capital letter.
  🟣 Examples: Anjali, India, Ganga River, Monday

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2. Common Nouns

Names of general people, places, or things.
🔵 Examples: girl, country, river, day

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3. Collective Nouns

Names of a group or collection of people, animals, or things considered as one.
🟢 Examples: team, bunch, herd, class, flock

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4. Abstract Nouns

Names of ideas, qualities, or emotions — things we cannot see or touch.
🟡 Examples: beauty, courage, anger, freedom, honesty

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5. Concrete Nouns

Names of things we can see, touch, taste, hear, or smell.
🔴 Examples: apple, table, dog, music, perfume

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6. Countable Nouns

Things that can be counted (have singular and plural forms).
🟢 Examples: one apple, two apples; a book, many books

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7. Uncountable Nouns

Things that cannot be counted individually.
🟣 Examples: water, milk, sugar, rice, air

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8. Compound Nouns

Nouns made by joining two or more words.
🔵 Examples: toothpaste, mother-in-law, basketball

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⚖️ Singular and Plural Nouns

• Singular → one (dog, book, child)
• Plural → more than one (dogs, books, children)

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🧠 Possessive Nouns

Show ownership or possession.
🟢 Examples:

• The girl’s bag.
• The dog’s tail.
• The teachers’ room.

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✍️ Examples in Sentences

1. Rahul (Proper) is reading a book (Common).
2. The team (Collective) won the match.
3. Honesty (Abstract) is the best policy.
4. I bought some milk (Uncountable) and apples (Countable).
5. The teacher’s (Possessive) pen is red