What is adjective? Types of adjective and their definitions.
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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)
Answer:
Adjective :
Adjective is a word that tells you more about a noun. It describe or modify other words, making your writing and speaking much more specific, and a whole lot more interesting.
There are eight types of adjectives . They are,
- Proper adjective
- Descriptive, qualitative or attributive adjective
- Quantitative adjective
- Numeral adjective
- Demonstrative adjective
- Distributive adjective
- Interrogative adjective
- Possessive adjective
Proper adjective :
An adjective that is formed from a proper noun and that is usually capitalized in English.
Example :
Shakespeare was both poet and an actor.
He lives in America.
Descriptive adjective :
The descriptive adjectives can be simply defined as the type of adjectives that are used to express the size, color, or shape of a person, a thing, an animal, or a place.
Example :
The tree is very tall.
Honey is sweet.
Quantitative adjective :
Quantitative adjectives describe the exact or approximate amount of a noun.
Example :
She has only few friends.
There was a little juice left in the jar.
Numeral adjective :
Numeral adjectives can be numbers or numerical orders, describing the number of nouns or the order of the noun being described.
Example :
We were waiting for three hours.
The baby is six months old.
Demonstrative adjective :
Demonstrative adjectives are special adjectives or determiners used to identify or express the relative position of a noun in time or space.
Example :
This chair is broken.
Those books are mine.
Distributive adjective :
An adjective used to refer to each and every person / thing separately is called distributive adjective.
Example :
Every nation is proud of its culture.
I like neither of you.
Interrogative adjective :
A word that modifies a noun by asking a question is called interrogative adjectives.
Example :
Whose book did you bring me?
How many topics do you have to study?
Possessive adjective :
A word that indicates the possession of the noun to a person/a few people.
Example :
She wore a beautiful dress.
Their car is slow.