Types of Adjectives

Types of Adjectives

1. Descriptive Adjectives

   • Attributive
     • Predicate
       • This type of modifying word appears after the subject of the sentence, which is normally a noun or pronoun. The describing word will also connect to a sentence with a linking verb.
         • Apples taste sweet and delicious.
     • Attributive adjectives are adjectives that describe a characteristic (or attribute) of the noun or pronoun that they modify
       • I admired the pretty sky.

2. Limiting Adjective

   • Difinite & infinitive Articles
     • Possessive
       • Demostrative
         • Indefinitive
           • Interrogative
             • Cardinal
               • Ordinal
                 • Proper
                   • Noun as adjective
                     • to modify other nouns.
                       • She wore a beautiful dress.
                   • Proper adjective is a word that modifies nouns and pronouns and is formed from a proper noun
                     • Alex is an Australian player.
                 • An ordinal number is an adjective that denotes what place an object has in a certain order.
                   • "Lane won fifth place in a Ryan Gosling lookalike contest." ...
               • 1 : of basic importance a cardinal principle. 2 : very serious or grave a cardinal sin.
                 • The nine played an excellent game.
             • An interrogative adjective is a word that modifies a noun by asking a question. Interrogative adjectives are also known as interrogative determiners. The interrogative adjectives are "what," "which," and "whose." Interrogative adjectives modify nouns and are used in interrogative sentences
               • Do you want dinner?
           • An indefinite adjective is an adjective used to describe a noun in a non-specific sense. The most common indefinite adjectives are any, each, few, many, much, most, several, and some. Note: Indefinite adjective are classified as "quantifiers" (a type of determiner) in contemporary grammar.
             • here are several people in the safe room.
         • Demonstrative adjectives are special adjectives or determiners used to identify or express the relative position of a noun in time or space. A demonstrative adjective comes before all other adjectives in the noun phrase.
           • Give me that blue water bottle.
       • They are words that modify a noun to show a form of possession, a sense of belonging or ownership to a specific person, animal or thing. The possessive adjectives that are used in the English language are: my, your, our, its, her, his, and their; each one corresponds to a subject pronoun.
         • My computer is not working as fast as it worked in the beginning.
     • The definite article (the) is used before a noun to indicate that the identity of the noun is known to the reader. The indefinite article (a, an) is used before a noun that is general or when its identity is not known. There are certain situations in which a noun takes no article.
       • “I'm going to eat an apple

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