Adjectives
- Adjectives are describing words. They describe nouns and pronouns.
Kinds of Adjectives
(All bold words are adjectives, while the underlined ones are the words they modify.)
- Descriptive Adjective (Qualitative Adjective) - Descriptive adjectives are used to describe nouns and pronouns.
Examples: The big tree is growing an unidentified fruit.
Ezekiel has a lovely smile.
- Quantitative Adjective - describes the quantity of something. They answer the question “how much?” or “how many?”
Examples: I have one fruit left.
Several children are coming to the party.
Basti has many chocolates in his bag.
NOTE: Notice that adjectives are always before the noun or the word it describes.
- Demonstrative Adjective - this describes WHICH pronoun or noun you are referring to.
Examples: This mango tree is ours.
That fish is swimming energetically.
- Possessive Adjective - it describes to whom something belongs to.
Examples: That is my pen.
Our dog is named Whitney.
References: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/adjective/
https://www.fluentu.com/blog/english/english-adjectives/
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