As we know, adjectives are words that are used to help describe or give a description to people, places, and things. These descriptive words can help give information about size, shape, age, color, origin, material, purpose, feelings, condition, and personality, or texture. Think about how you would describe a friend, bedroom, school, and tree.
You might answer with the following:
My friend is fun and kind-hearted.
This bedroom is big.
Our school is the best.
That big tree is green.
You can see that a few of the previous sentences contain many adjectives. The first sentence has three adjectives.
The words “my”, "our" show who or what posses something else, such words are called possessive adjectives. Similarly, the words "this", "that" demonstrate a particular person, place or thing, such words are called demonstrative adjectives. Apart from possessive adjectives and demonstrative adjectives, there are many different types of adjectives.
We will explain nine different types of adjectives in this lesson. So, let's get started.
Adjective showing the quality of nouns or pronouns that it modifies is called a descriptive adjective.
Example:
black dog
big house
naughty kid
blue bag
ten pies
Adjectives that are derived from a proper noun are called proper adjectives.
Example:
French restaurant
Italian food
Japanese car
Adjectives that indicate which person or thing you would like to talk about.
Example:
That tree
This car
These cars
Those trees
The words 'this', 'that' are the primary singular forms of demonstrative adjectives; the words 'these', 'those' are the primary plural forms of demonstrative adjectives.
As you can see, 'these' is a plural form of 'this' and 'those' is a plural form of 'that'.
The adjective that expresses the state of possession of nouns is called a possessive adjective. They show possession or ownership.
Example:
my bottle
his car
our home
their food
your bicycle
The adjective that is used to ask a question is called an interrogative adjective.
Example:
Whose car is this?
Which book to pick?
A coordinate adjective consists of two or more adjectives that appear in sequence with one another to modify the same noun are called coordinate adjectives. These are separated by a comma instead of coordinating conjunction like ‘and’.
Example:
a cold, rainy day
a bright, sunny day
a dark, stormy night
These are used to compare the difference between the two objects they modify (faster, bigger, brighter, larger). They are used in sentences where two nouns are compared.
Example:
I can run faster than her.
His kite flew higher than the roof.
This is the sweeter of the two muffins.
They are used to describe an object which is at the upper or lower limit of quality (the tallest, the hottest, the best).
Example:
This is the oldest building in the town.
Out of all the boxes, that one is the heaviest.
Compound adjectives consist of two or more words that function as a unit.
Example:
When a compound adjective follows the noun it modifies, do not use a hyphen to join the adjectives.
