Adjectives: Definition, types of adjectives and degree of comparision

2. 1. Definition

3. Describe nouns or pronouns
Describes:
 Physical features
 Colours
 Qualities
 Texture
 Material
 Emotional status

4. Examples:
•They live in a beautiful house.
•Lisa is wearing a sleeveless shirt today.
•This soup is not edible.
•She wore a ugly dress.
•He writes meaningless letters.
•This shop is much better.
•Ben is an adorable baby.
•Linda’s hair is gorgeous.
•This glass is breakable.
•I met a homeless person in NY.

6. 2. Kinds of
Adjective

7. Quality
• Answering ‘What kind’
• Eg: Ashish is a good boy.
Quantity
• By answering ‘How much’
• Eg: She had enough money with her.
Number
• By answering ‘How many’ (cardinal), ‘In what
order’(ordinal)
• Eg: Ravi bought ten chocolates.
Types of Adjectives are:

8. Demonstra
tive
• Answering ‘Which’
• Eg: Ayushi bought this shirt from Bombay.
Interroga
tive
• ‘Wh’ used to ask questions
• Eg: Which languages do you know?
Possessiv
e
• To show possession
• Eg: That book is mine.
Types of Adjectives are:

9. Quality Quantit
y
Number Demon
strative
Interro
gative
Possess
ive
o Good
o Quick
o Bad
o Beautiful
o Sweet
o Lazy
o Ugly
o Little
o Enough
o Few
o More
o Less
oCardinal
o Eleven
o Ten
oOrdinal
oFirst
o Eleventh
o This
o Those
o That
o These
o What
oWhich
o Where
o Who
oWhom
o Your
o My
o Mine
o His
o Her
o Theirs
o Ours
Kinds of Adjectives

10. 3. Other types of
Adjectives

11. Other types of Adjectives
Proper adjectives
• Formed from
proper nouns
• Eg: I Am a
Indian.
• Eg: I am a
Christian.
Indefinite
adjectives
• Gives indefinite
information
about the
quantity of a
noun or
pronoun
• Eg: She had
another copy
with her.
• Eg: Some of
them went out.
Distributive
adjectives
• Refers to each
member of a
group of noun
or pronoun
• Eg: Each one
teach one.
• Eg: Every book
of this series is
interesting.

12. 4. Difference
between adjectives
and pronouns

13.  Difference between the adjective and pronoun
is:
 Possessive adjective, demonstrative adjective and
interrogative adjective must be followed by a noun or
pronoun(adjective should be just before the noun)
 Without them they become pronoun.
 Eg: 1) My book is on the table.(The book on the table is
mine)
2) His chair is next to the window.(The chair next to
the window is his)

14. 5. Degree of
comparison

15. Degrees of comparison
Positive Comparative Superlative

16.  Adjectives are used to compare two or more
nouns or adjectives.
1) Positive degree: as before and after adjective
2) Comparative degree: than after adjective
3) Superlative degree: the before adjective
 Examples
a) She is as wise as King Solomon.
b) He is stronger than his brother.
c) It is the most beautiful flower in your garden.

17. 6. Confusing pairs
of adjectives

18.  Little(almost none)/A little(some amount, but not
much)
 Eg: There is little oil left in the bottle.
 Eg: There is a little oil left in the bottle
 Few(almost none)/A few(not many, but some)
 Eg: Their were few people at the spot.
 Eg: A few did turn move away from the spot.
 Some(a little)/Any(none)
 Eg: There is some time left for your test.
 Eg: There isn’t any time left for your exam.

19. Adjective with suffix –ing and –ed
Interesting/ interested
Bored/ boring
Shocking/ shocked
Annoyed/ annoying

20.  Much(uncountable nouns, large
quantity)
 Many(countable nouns, large amount)