3. ADJECTIVES
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2.
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Adjectives are describing words that tell us more
about the people or things they describe.
TYPES OF ADJECTIVES
Descriptive Adjectives
Adjectives of quantity
Demonstrative Adjectives
Interrogative Adjectives
Possessive Adjectives
5. ADJECTIVES OF QUANTITY
We use adjectives of quantity to show the
amount of number of things.
Example:
I play tennis every day.
I know a few people in London
6. DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES
We use Demonstrative Adjective to help us
point out the exact noun we are refering to.
Following are some of the Demonstrative
Adjectives we use :
1. This
2. That
3. These
4. Those
Example: These are apples.
7. INTERROGATIVE ADJECTIVES
We use Interrogative Adjectives to ask a question
with reference to a particular noun
Example : Whose book is that ?
Some common Interrogative nouns are :
1. Which
2. What
3. Whose
8. POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVE
Possessive Adjectives indicate ownership .
Example : This is our house.
The following words are Possessive Adjectives :
1.My
5.Her
2.His
6.Our
3.Its
4.Your
7.Their
Home
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10. PUNCTUATION
Punctuation marks are signs that we use in writing to
make the meaning of our sentence clear.
These signs include
• FULLSTOP .
• COMMA ,
• APOSTROPHE „
• EXCLAMATION MARK !
• COLON :
• SEMI COLON ;
QUESTION MARK ?
11. FULL STOP
We can use a full stop:
1. at the end of a sentence.
2. to make a word shorter { abbreviations].
3. after initials .
12. COMMA
The main job of the comma is to show us where to pause
while reading.
EXAMPLE:
1.She comes from London , England
2. Can you help me , please?
13. QUESTION MARK
We place a question mark at the end of a direct question.
Example:
1.What is your name?
2.Are you coming with me?
14. EXCLAMATION MARK
We place an exclamation mark at the end of sentence
that express strong feelings.
EXAMPLE
1.How wonderful!
2.What a beautiful day!
15. APOSTROPHE
Apostrophe is mainly used for following 2 purposes:
1.To show possession
2.In the contracted words
Example
1.This is Rani‟s book
In this sentence it is used to show possession.
16. QUOTATION MARKS
We use quotation marks to show actual words spoken
by a person.
EXAMPLE
1. Siddhu said, “I am very hungry.”
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Quotation marks are also known as inverted
commas or speech commas.
