Explain how many adjectives are there with examples.
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THERE ARE 7 DIFFERENT TYPES OF ADJECTIVES WHICH ARE AS FOLLOWS:-
1-)DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVE-》A descriptive adjective is used to describe nouns and pronouns. Words like beautiful, silly, tall, annoying are all decriptive adjective.
FOR EXAMPLE :- She is a beautiful girl.
2-)QUANTITATIVE ADJECTIVES-》A quantitative adjective describes quantity of a noun or a pronoun.Words like many, general, half are all quantitative adjectives.
FOR EXAMPLE:-I want many ballons.
3-)DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVE-》A demonstrative adjective describes which noun or pronoun you are referring to. Words like This, That, These or Those are all demonstrative adjective.
FOR EXAMPLE:-Those are buffaloes.
4-)POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVE-》A possessive adjective show possession it describes to whom a thing belongs to.Words like my, his,mine, her are all possessive adjective.
FOR EXAMPLE:-He's mine.
5-)INTERROGATIVE ADJECTIVES-》A interrogative adjective asks questions these are usually followed by noun or pronoun.Words like which, what, whose are all interrogative adjectives.
FOR EXAMPLE:-Which way would you like to prefer.
6-)DISTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVE-》A distributive adjective is used to decribe a group of nouns or pronoun.Words like each, every, eithet are all distributive adjectives.
FOR EXAMPLE:-Every rose has it own thorns.
7-)Article-》Articles are their own part of speech but they are adjective. Articles describes nouns or pronouns of whom you are referring to.There are only three articles in english a, an and the.
FOR EXAMPLE:- A book,An apple and The taj mahal.
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Question= Explain an adjective and its different kinds wit examples.⬇️
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An adjective is a word used to add something to the meaning of a noun or pronoun.
Read these sentences.
1. The rose is a beautiful flower.
2. Saurabh is a rich man.
3. Rani is clever.
4. Monkeys have long tails.
The words beautiful, rich, clever and long in the above sentences at to the meaning of the nouns flower, man, Rani and tails respectively. so they are adjective.
Kinds of adjectives:-
Adjectives can be classified into eight kinds:
1. Adjective of quality
2. Adjective of quantity
3. Adjective of number
4. Demonstrative adjective
5. Distributive adjective
6. Interrogative adjective
7. Possessive adjective
8. Proper adjective
Adjective of quality:-
Adjective that Express the kind or quality of a person or a thing are called adjective of Quality. since they describe a person or they think it they are called descriptive adjective.
Read this sentences:-
1. Bhopal is a large city.
2. I like ripe mangoes.
Adjective of quality answer the question- of what kind?
Two ways to using adjective of quality
adjective of quality may be used in two different ways:-
1. Attributively
a. He lives in a small house.
b. I like ripe mangoes.
The adjective (Small, ripe) have been used prior to the words (house, Mongoose) whitch De qualify. They are, said to be used Attributively.
2. Predicatively
Read these sentences.
a. His house is small.
b. Those mongoes are ripe.
2. Adjective of quantity
adjective that tell us how much of a thing is intended are called "Adjective of quantity".
Read these sentences.
a. These is little milk in the kettle.
b. He ate all the pudding.
Adjective of quantity answer the question- How much?
Adjective of number or numeral adjectives
Adjective that tell us how many people or things are made in what order a person or thing is stands are called adjectives of number.
Read these sentences.
a. He is eighty years of age.
b. I have many friends.
adjectives on number answer the question- how many? or in what ways or order?
4. Demonstrative adjectives
Demonstrative adjectives point out which persons, thing or places are meant
Read these sentences.
a. This trunk is very heavy.
b. Those boys are my friends.
Demonstrative adjective answer the question- which?
5. Distributive adjectives
Distributive adjective show that persons or things are taken one at a time.
Read these sentences.
a. Each pen coasts ten rupees.
b. He gave me two rackets. Neither of the rackets was goods.
6. Interrogative adjectives
Words like what, which and whose when used with nouns to ask questions are called interrogative adjective.
Read these sentences.
a. Which fruit do you like most?
b. What time is it?
c. Whose bag did the thief steal?
the words what, which and whose are classed as Interrogative Adjectives when they are used with noun to ask questions.
Note: What is used in a General sense and which is used in a selective sense.
7. Possessive Adjectives
Possessive Adjectives show possesion or ownership.
Read these sentences.
a. My car needs repairs
b. The plant is losing its flowers.
Possessive adjective answer the question- Whose?
8. Proper Adjectives
Proper adjective are proper nouns used as adjective forms.
Read these sentences.
a. He is an Indian. (Proper Noun)
b. He is an Indian soilder. (Proper adjective)