TYPES OF ADJECTIVE

DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVE

Descriptive adjectives are used to describe nouns and pronouns. These

adjectives add information and qualities to the words they’re modifying.

Descriptive adjectives usually express things that are observable through the

five senses.

DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVE

I saw a muscular woman down the street.

Rain has a smooth skin complexion.

Kidd is a fat adult.

Lorraine has hairy legs.

My father is a hardworking man.

QUANTITATIVE ADJECTIVE

A word that modifies a noun by indicating a number/quantity is called a

quantitative adjective. They answer the question “how much?” or “how many?”.

It can be either cardinal or ordinal number.

QUANTITATIVE ADJECTIVE

I have ten zits on my face.

Roy ate fifty pieces of the brownies.

Kim has many stolen pens in his bag.

There are 42 students in my classroom.

Ace had enough money to buy the house.

DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVE

A demonstrative adjective describes “which” noun or pronoun you’re

referring to. They work alone and does not precede a noun, but a

demonstrative adjective always comes before the word it modifies.

Demonstrative adjectives include the words: this, that, these, those.

DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVE

This beautiful figurine was given by a close friend.

That house looks amazingly broken.

Those pair of socks seem cute to me.

These dogs are so cute.

I could not do the task at that moment.

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVE

A possessive adjective indicates possession or ownership. They show the

belongingness of something to someone/something. All these adjectives

always come before a noun. Unlike possessive pronouns, these words demand

a noun after them.

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVE

Her classmates are really annoying.

Your husband hitted my car last week.

His dog peed in my garden.

Our children are all grown up now.

My cow just ate the grass.

INTERROGATIVE ADJECTIVE

An interrogative adjective asks a question. These adjectives are always

followed by a noun or a pronoun, and are used to form questions. The

interrogative adjectives are: which, what, whose. These words will not be

considered as adjectives if a noun does not follow right after them.

INTERROGATIVE ADJECTIVE

Which color suits me well?

Whose pen is this?

What type of leather is more durable?

Which picture will you show on the presentation?

Whose coat is on the hanger?

DISTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVE

Distributive adjectives describe specific members out of a group.

Distributive adjectives are normally used with singular nouns. They include

“each”, “every”, “either”, and “neither”.

DISTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVE

Each member in club gets a card.

He does not like either of the song choices.

Every idea he introduced were very amusing.

Neither a human in this room understands the topic.

Every game I played were boring.

ARTICLES

Articles also modify the nouns. Articles determine the specification of

nouns. There are only three articles in the English language: a, an and the.

ARTICLES

A truck ran over the old lady.

The glass was shattered in tiny pieces.

An ice cream melted on my hands.

A treadmill was broken last month in the gym.

The humidifier broke.

INDEFINITE ADJECTIVE

An indefinite adjective is used to describe a noun in a non-specific sense.

They provide indefinite/unspecific information about the noun. The common

indefinite adjectives are few, many, much, most, all, any, each, every, either,

nobody, several, some, etc. Indefinite adjectives should not be confused with

indefinite pronouns. Indefinite adjectives modify nouns or pronouns. Indefinite

pronouns are standalone pronouns.

INDEFINITE ADJECTIVE

Cate had several pimples at her back.

Tina owns some designer bags.

All the paper I own were gone in a matter of seconds.

Several people admitted that they hated making a portfolio.

A few friends of mine cheats in the exam.