TYPES OF ADJECTIVES

October 22, 2020

Adjective is the word which provides information about noun or pronoun. Adjective describes or modifies a noun.
e.g. happy, clever, many, few, thirty, hundred, this, that, who, how, a, an, the etc.

ADJECTIVES

TYPES OF ADJECTIVES

Qualitative/Descriptive Adjectives

An Adjective that indicates quality, degree or kind of a person, place or thing. It adds more information about Noun, such as color, size or shape.
e.g. big, white, rich, red, poor, happy, beautiful, hungry, lucky, amazing, large, brown, thick, fat, small etc.

Quantitative Adjectives

An Adjective that indicates the exact or approximate amount or quantity. It describes the measurement, but not in exact numbers.
e.g. enough, few, any, some, much, more, little, sufficient, whole, all, several, most, each, either, neither etc.

Demonstrative Adjectives

An Adjective that indicates relative position of a noun. It helps to identify a specific person, place or thing.
e.g. this, that, these, those

Possessive Adjectives

An Adjective that indicates the possession of the noun. It is modifier, which demonstrates noun’s ownership.
e.g. my, your, his, her, their, its, our

Interrogative Adjectives

An Adjective that indicates the modification of a noun by asking a question.
e.g. which, what, whose

Distributive Adjectives

An Adjective that indicates the reference of each person or thing separately. It is always used with singular noun.
e.g. each, every, any, either, neither, one, both etc.

Numerical Adjectives/Adjectives of Number

An Adjective that indicates a number or numerical order. It denotes the number of noun, also the order in which it stands.
e.g. one, two, three, thirty seven, hundred, first, second, third, fiftieth, twelfth, last etc.

Articles

An Adjective that is used as Article. Basically, an Article is known as an Adjective. It is used to indicate Definite or Indefinite situation.
e.g. a, an, the