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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