Today is our topic of discussion – Adjective and kinds
Adjective and kinds
Definition of adjective
An adjective is a part of speech which modifies or describes the quality, quantity, situation, state or feature of a noun or pronoun. Pretty, ugly, blue, smart etc are the examples of adjectives. As-
The young boy brought me a very soft chair from his home, and then he quickly disappeared.
Oh my God!
In this sentence young refers to the feature of the boy and soft refers to the feature of the chair. They are the adjectives of that sentence.
Classification of adjectives
Adjectives can be classified into three parts:
Descriptive adjectives
Descriptive adjectives refer to the features or characteristics of a noun. They can tell you about a noun’s size, color, shape, taste, and more. Some examples are good, bad small, yellow, round, friendly and salty. As-
The golden wooden pen is mine.
Here, golden and wooden are descriptive adjectives that describe the pen.
Quantitative adjectives
Quantitative adjectives describe the exact or approximate amount All, no, few, many and little are the examples of qualitative adjectives. of a noun.
My brother has four cars.
There are 28 boys and 30 girls are in this class.
Here, four, 28 and 30 are the examples of Quantitative Adjective.
Numeral adjective:
Numeral adjectives are quantitative-adjectives that give exact number amounts (like -five, seven, twentieth, first and fifth). As-
She stood first in the class.
In this case, first is a numeral adjective that refers to her position in the class.
Demonstrative adjectives
Demonstrative adjectives refer to particular nouns. This, that, these and those are some examples of demonstrative adjectives. As –
He went to that road.
Here, that is a demonstrative adjective that describes which road we’re referring to.