This document provides information about adjectives, including their definition, function, and types. Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns by describing attributes like quality, quantity, or size. They can indicate what kind, which, or how many/much. Adjectives have positive, comparative, and superlative forms to indicate degrees of the quality or attribute being described. There are also rules that govern the typical order that adjectives are listed in a series to modify a noun.

1. ADJECTIVES

2. Adjectives
 An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words. An adjective usually precedes the noun or the pronoun which it modifies. In the following examples, the highlighted words are adjectives:

3. Examples
A battered music box sat on the mahogany sideboard.
The back room was filled with large, yellow rain boots.
The truck-shaped balloon floated over the treetops.
Many stores have already begun to play Christmas music.

4. Adjectives
Adjectives always answer the questions:
WHAT KIND?
WHICH ONE?
 HOW MANY?
 HOW MUCH?
The process by which an adjective modifies a word is called modification.

5. Parts of Speech Used as Adjectives
Articles
Nouns
Pronouns
my,your,his,her,its,our,their
this,that,these,those
which,what,whose

6. Indefinite pronouns
Another,each,either,neither,
Both,few,many,several
All,any,more,most,other,some

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11. DEGREES OF COMPARISON

12. Degrees of Comparison
Adjectives can express degrees of modification:
Gladys is a rich woman, but Josie is richer than Gladys, and Sandie is the richest woman in town.
The degrees of comparison are known as the positive, the comparative, and the superlative.
We use the comparative for comparing two things and the superlative for comparing three or more things.

13. Positive
Comparative
Superlative
rich
richer
richest
lovely
lovelier
loveliest
beautiful
more beautiful
most beautiful
Irregular Comparative and Superlative Forms
good
better
best
bad
worse
worst
little
less
least
much many some
more
most
far
farther
farthest
Be careful, also, not to use more along with a comparative adjective formed with -er nor to use most along with a superlative adjective formed with -est (e.g., do not write that something is more heavier or most heaviest).
The as — as construction is used to create a comparison expressing equality:
He is as foolish as he is large.
She is as bright as her mother.

14. Order of Adjectives
The Order of Adjectives in a Series
There is a pattern to arranging adjectives in a series. The categories in the following table can be described as follows:
1.Determiners — articles and other limiters.
2.Observation — post determiners and limiter adjectives (e.g., a real hero, a perfect idiot) and adjectives subject to subjective measure (e.g., beautiful, interesting)
3.Size and Shape — adjectives subject to objective measure (e.g., wealthy, large, round)

15. Order of Adjectives
4.Age — adjectives denoting age (e.g., young, old, new, ancient)
5.Color — adjectives denoting color (e.g., red, black, pale)
6.Origin — denominal adjectives denoting source of noun (e.g., French, American, Canadian)
7.Material — denominal adjectives denoting what something is made of (e.g., woolen, metallic, wooden)
8.Qualifier — final limiter, often regarded as part of the noun (e.g., rocking chair, hunting cabin, passenger car, book cover)