Adjectives are words that describe or modify nouns or pronouns, providing more information about their qualities, properties, or characteristics. Here are some key aspects of adjectives:
Types of Adjectives:
1. Quantitative Adjectives: Describe quantity or amount (e.g., three, few, many)
2. Qualitative Adjectives: Describe quality or characteristics (e.g., happy, tall, blue)
3. Demonstrative Adjectives: Point out specific nouns (e.g., this, that, these, those)
4. Interrogative Adjectives: Ask questions about nouns (e.g., which, what, how many)
5. Possessive Adjectives: Show ownership or possession (e.g., my, your, his, her)
6. Distributive Adjectives: Describe how something is distributed or shared (e.g., each, every, either)
7. Emphasizing Adjectives: Add emphasis or intensity to a description (e.g., very, extremely, highly)
Adjective Forms:
1. Positive Form: The basic form of an adjective (e.g., happy)
2. Comparative Form: Used to compare two things (e.g., happier)
3. Superlative Form: Used to compare three or more things (e.g., happiest)
Adjective Placement:
1. Attributive Adjectives: Placed before the noun they modify (e.g., the big house)
2. Predicative Adjectives: Placed after a linking verb (e.g., the house is big)
Common Adjectives:
1. Size: big, small, tall, short
2. Color: red, blue, green, yellow
3. Emotion: happy, sad, angry, excited
4. Texture: smooth, rough, soft, hard
5. Taste: sweet, sour, salty, bitter
Lets learn some adjectives with examples in this video