Adjectives

Adjective is the most interesting category of English parts of speech. Adjectives are the describing words they describe nouns and add more to them. Adjective provides us every detail about noun.

Definition: “Adjective is a describing word that describes noun or pronoun”. Such as:

Sahil is brave boy.

I saw fierce dog yesterday.

Robert has a smart phone.

The leaves of trees are green.

Minty gave me red pen.

Feeble man asked for help.

Shopkeeper lost his five hundred rupees.

Above all bold words are adjectives because they describing nouns or pronouns and adding more about the nouns or pronouns.Adjectives play vital rule and are crucial for English.

Adjectives can be used before nouns and after the verbs like this:

Kid ate cold ice-cream.

(Before noun)

She speaks politely.

(After verb)

Kinds of Adjectives

 Adjective of Quality

Adjective of  Quantity
Adjective of Number (Numeral Adjective)
Demonstrative Adjective
Indefinite Adjective
  Possessive Adjective
Interrogative Adjective
Proper Adjective
Adjective of quality: The words that show the quality, characteristic, kind or nature of nouns are Adjectives of Quality. Such as:
They are kind persons.

She is tall girl.

He is honest.

Atif has big house.

Grandma told us a true story.

Adjective of quantity: The words that show us amount or quantity of the nouns are adjectives of quantity. Such as:
I meet with his all friends

Do you have any coffee?

I ate some rice in party.

I phoned him several times.

Crow found little water in the jug.

Above all bold words showed us indefinite quantity or number of nouns. Adjectives of quantity don’t tell us an exact amount or number of nouns.

Adjective of number (Numeral adjective): The words that show the number of nouns are adjectives of number or numeral adjectives. Such as:
There are five hundred students in our school.

I have three hundred rupees in my pocket.

Their team tried several times to win.

Anno secured second position in exams.

 Above bold words are adjectives of number. Adjectives of number further divided into three parts or kinds.

Definite Numeral Adjectives-are the adjectives that denote exact and correct number of a noun.
Examples:  One, Two, Three, Four, Five (Cardinals)
                       First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth (Ordinal)

Indefinite Numeral Adjectives-are the adjectives that don’t denote an exact and correct number of a noun. Refer it generally.
Examples: Few, Many, Some, All, Each.
Distributive Numeral Adjectives-are the adjectives that refer nouns individually in whole number or amount.
Examples: Each, Either, Neither.
Demonstrative Adjective: These are the adjectives that indicate or point out nouns. There are four demonstrative adjectives in number.
This/These (point or refer near distance) 

Examples: This book is mine.

These are happiest couple.  

That/Those (point or refer long distance)

That day I can’t forget.

Those classrooms were wide. 

Indefinite Adjective: These adjectives show indefinite amount or number of nouns. They don’t give us an exact idea about the nouns. Just express them generally. Such as:

All, Any, Few, Each, Little, Many, More, Most, Much, Several, Some, Anybody, Somebody, Someone, Something

Examples: Abid read many books.
I saw his all photographs.

He has much money.

Inspector solved several cases.

Most people like cricket in our country.

Above all bold worlds are indefinite adjectives, because they denoting general number of nouns.

Possessive Adjective: Possessive pronouns are called possessive adjectives when they follow nouns to show relations or ownership. Such as:
My English is improved.

They know his profession

Our dreams will come true.

He forgot her gift.

She sent their letter.

We know its fault.

Above all bold words are possessive adjectives, because they describing nouns.

Interrogative Adjective: These are adjectives that use with nouns to enquire something or ask questions.

Such as:

What problem he has?
Which dictionary does he want?
Whose purse you found?
Above all bold words are interrogative adjectives because they asking questions with nouns.

Proper Adjective: These adjectives are derived from proper nouns and capitalized while writing. Such as:

Proper noun                                  Proper adjective

Pakistan                                                Pakistani

India                                                     Indian

Turkey                                                  Turkish

Italy                                                       Italian