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1. Adjective
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2. What is an adjective?
▪ Adjectives are words that
describe the qualities or states
of being of nouns: enormous,
doglike, silly, yellow, fun, fast.
They can also describe the
quantity of nouns: many, few,
millions, eleven.
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3. Definition of Adjective.
▪ An adjective describes or
modifies noun/s and pronoun/s in a
sentence. It normally indicates
quality, size, shape, duration,
feelings, contents, and more about a
noun or pronoun.
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4. How to identify Adjective.
▪ Adjectives usually provide
relevant information about the
nouns/pronouns they
modify/describe by answering the
questions: What kind? How many?
Which one? How much? Adjectives
enrich your writing by adding
precision and originality to it.
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5. Example of Adjective
▪ The team has
a dangerous batsman. (What kind?)
▪ I have ten candies in my pocket.
(How many?)
▪ I loved that red car. (Which one?)
▪ I earn more money than he does.
(How much?)
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6. Types of Adjectives
1. DescriptiveAdjectives
2. Quantitative
Adjectives
3. Proper Adjectives
4. Demonstrative
Adjectives
5. Possessive Adjectives
6. Interrogative
Adjectives
7. Indefinite Adjectives
8. Articles
9. Compound Adjectives
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7. 1. Descriptive Adjectives:
▪ A descriptive adjective is a word which describes
nouns and pronouns. Most of the adjectives belong
in this type.These adjectives provide information
and attribute to the nouns/pronouns they modify or
describe. Descriptive adjectives are also
called qualitative adjectives.
▪ Participles are also included in this type of adjective
when they modify a noun.
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8. Examples of Descriptive
Adjectives
▪ I have a fast car. (The word ‘fast’ is
describing an attribute of the car)
▪ I am hungry. (The word ‘hungry’ is providing
information about the subject)
▪ The hungry cats are crying.
▪ I saw a flying Eagle.
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9. 2. Quantitative Adjectives:
▪ A quantitative adjective provides
information about the quantity of the
nouns/pronouns.This type belongs to
the question category of ‘how much’
and ‘how many’.
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10. Examples Quantitative
Adjectives:
▪ I have 20 bucks in my wallet.
(How much)
▪ They have three children.
(How many)
▪ You should have completed
the whole task. (How much)
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11. 3. Proper Adjectives:
▪ Proper adjectives are the adjective form of proper nouns.
When proper nouns modify or describe other
nouns/pronouns, they become proper adjectives. ‘Proper’
means ‘specific’ rather than ‘formal’ or ‘polite.’
▪ A proper adjective allows us to summarize a concept in just
one word. Instead of writing/saying ‘a food cooked in
Chinese recipe’ you can write/say ‘Chinese food’.
▪ Proper adjectives are usually capitalized as proper nouns
are.
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12. Example Proper
Adjectives :
▪ American cars are very strong.
▪ Chinese people are hard
workers.
▪ I love KFC burgers.
▪ Marxist philosophers despise
capitalism.
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13. 4. Demonstrative Adjectives:
▪ A demonstrative adjective directly
refers to something or someone.
Demonstrative adjectives include the
words: this, that, these, those.
▪ A demonstrative pronoun works alone
and does not precede a noun, but a
demonstrative adjective always comes
before the word it modifies.
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14. Examples Demonstrative
Adjectives :
▪ That building is so gorgeously decorated. (‘That’
refers to a singular noun far from the speaker)
▪ This car is mine. (‘This’ refers to a singular noun
close to the speaker)
▪ These cats are cute. (‘These’ refers to a plural noun
close to the speaker)
▪ Those flowers are heavenly. (‘Those’ refers to a
plural noun far from the speaker)
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15. 5. Possessive Adjectives:
▪ A possessive adjective indicates possession
or ownership. It suggests the belongingness
of something to someone/something.
▪ Some of the most used possessive adjectives
are my, his, her, our, their, your.
▪ All these adjectives always come before a
noun. Unlike possessive pronouns, these
words demand a noun after them.
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16. Examples Possessive
Adjectives:
▪ My car is parked outside.
▪ His cat is very cute.
▪ Our job is almost done.
▪ Her books are interesting.
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17. 6. Interrogative Adjectives:
▪ An interrogative adjective asks a
question. An interrogative adjective must
be followed by a noun or a pronoun.The
interrogative adjectives are: which, what,
whose. These words will not be
considered as adjectives if a noun does
not follow right after them. ‘Whose’ also
belongs to the possessive adjective type.
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18. Examples Interrogative
Adjectives:
▪ Which phone do you use?
▪ What game do you want to
play?
▪ Whose car is this?
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19. 7. Indefinite Adjectives:
▪ An indefinite adjective describes or
modifies a noun unspecifically.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.
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20. Examples Indefinite
Adjectives:
▪ I gave some candy to her.
▪ I want a few moments alone.
▪ Several writers wrote about
the recent incidents.
▪ Each student will have to
submit homework tomorrow.
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21. 8. Articles Adjectives:
▪ Articles also modify the
nouns. So, articles are also
adjectives. Articles determine
the specification of nouns. ‘A’
and ‘an’ are used to refer to an
unspecific noun, and ‘the’ is
used to refer to a specific
noun.
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22. Examples Articles
Adjective:
▪ A cat is always afraid of water.
(Here, the noun ‘cat’ refers to
any cat, not specific.)
▪ The cat is afraid of me. (This
cat is a specific cat.)
▪ An electronic product should
always be handled with care.
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23. 9. Compound Adjectives:
▪ When compound nouns/combined
words modify other nouns, they
become a compound adjective.This
type of adjective usually combines
more than one word into a single
lexical unit and modifies a noun.They
are often separated by a hyphen or
joined together by a quotation mark.
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24. Example Compound
Adjectives :
▪ I have a broken-down sofa.
▪ I saw a six-foot-long snake.
▪ He gave me an “I’m gonna kill
you now” look.
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25. The Degree of Adjectives:
▪ There are three degrees of
adjectives: Positive, comparative,
superlative.
▪ These degrees are applicable
only for the descriptive
adjectives.
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26. Examples:
▪ Positive degree: He is
a good boy.
▪ Comparative degree: He
is better than any other boy.
▪ Superlative: He is
the best boy.
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27. Rule 1
▪ The following
Adjectives form
the Comparative
by adding –“er”
and Superlative
by adding –“est”
to the Positive.
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28. Rule 2
▪ If the
Positive ends
in “e”, only
“r” and “st”
are added to
form the
Comparative
and the
Superlative.
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29. Rule 3
▪ If the Positive end
in “y” and “y” is
preceded by a
consonant, the “y”
is changed into “i”,
before adding “er”
and “est”. But if
the “y” is preceded
by a vowel, then
“y” is not changed
into “i”.
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30. But
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•This is an exception to the above rule.

31. Rule 4
▪ If the Positive Degree has only one syllable and ends
in one consonant, and the consonant is preceded by
a short vowel, this consonant is doubled before
adding “er” and “est”.
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32. Rule 5
▪ Many Adjectives
of two syllables,
and all Adjectives
of the more than
two syllables,
take “more”
before them to
form the
Comparative and
“most” to form
the Superlative.
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33. Note
▪ 1. “Than” is used after the Comparative Degree. “The”
is used before the Superlative Degree.
▪ 2. Do not use the Double Comparative and Superlative,
such as more better and most loveliest.
▪ 3. A few Comparative are followed by “to”, instead of
than; as, inferior to, superior to, junior to, senior to.
▪ 4. Each, every, either, neither, when used as Adjectives,
go with singular Noun. Example- Every boy was punished.
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