Adjectives are words that describe nouns by indicating attributes such as quality, quantity, or relations. There are several types of adjectives including descriptive adjectives like "brave" and "fluffy", quantity adjectives like "each" and "enough", and demonstrative adjectives like "this" and "that". Adjectives provide important details about nouns and can be used to shorten answers while still conveying key information.

1. Adjectives Adjectives are words that function to describe nouns.

2. Specifically, adjectives describe the action, state, or quality that nouns refer to. The drink is a blend of different flavors of juice. The camping knife cut my finger. Elderly people are more prone to injuries and heat stroke. George met fifteen Belgian investors. Ask open-ended questions to elicit more information.

3. Kinds of Adjectives Descriptive Adjectives - ascribe to its noun the value of an attribute of that noun. Reminder: For HKAs, descriptive adjectives are most of the time deleted from the information if they are unnecessary in the answer. However, other kinds of adjectives are always very useful. The brave soldier killed the enemy. Proper Adjectives - created from a proper noun. The agents are studying the French language. ( French comes from the proper noun France.) Compound Adjectives – created when two or more words are combined to create a descriptive adjective; typically connected with a hyphen. Note: This is a very effective way of shortening answers but giving added information. Fluffy is a magical dog with three heads.

4. SAY: Fluffy is a three-headed magical dog.

5. Kinds of Adjectives Quantity Adjectives - describe and emphasize amounts of the noun. These include each, every, any, some, no, more, many, either, neither, few, several, both, enough, half, all, only. The Philippines has enough supply of rice for the next five months. Cardinal Adjectives – show absolute number of nouns. These can also imply that other numbers exist. There is one Jim Hendrix in the team. ( Implication: there can never be another) Ordinal Adjectives – indicate the order or sequence of things. These can also imply that there are other positions. There will be two hundred people to serve. This is one way of doing it. ( Implication: there are other ways) This is the first time Gary has doen that. ( Implication: not done that before and can do it again) Mike came second in the race. ( Implication: someone else came first)

6. Kinds of Adjectives Demonstrative Adjectives – show whether the noun they refer to is singular or plural and whether it is located near to or far from the speaker; include this, these, that, those, former (the former), latter (the latter), one (the one). Reminder: These are wonderful. (used as a pronoun)

7. These apples are wonderful. (used as an adjective) Possessive Adjectives – show possession; include my, your, his, her, its, our, their. Medals will be given only to those runners who can complete the marathon in less than 8 hours. ( those refer to specific people) Aristotle is a great philosopher. His arguments are being studied up to these days. Sisters Venus and Serena Williams are tennis champions, the former having won more world titles.

8. Kinds of Adjectives Noun Adjectives – these are nouns used as adjectives to define or describe another noun. Personal Titles – Mr., Mrs., Aunt, Uncle, Dr., Lord, and others are classified as adjectives when they are attached to a name. The glass window is broken. Dan left the porch light on last night. The lecture tomorrow will be presented by Dr. Ingols and Prof. Castro.