1. Adjectives
• An adjective is used with a noun to add something to its
meaning.
• We use the word adjective to describe words which tell us
about the quality of a noun or pronoun
• The last post
• Green ones
• A useful book
• These adjectives of quality answer a question like
• What is it like ? Or what is he like?
• Ravi is an intelligent boy.(what kind of boy)
• I bought three pens (how many pens?)
• She needs some help(how much help)

2. Adjectives
• Adjectives are invariable ,i.e. they do not
change their form
• An boy
• An intelligent girl
• - boys
• - girls

3. Adjectives
• Positions of an adjective
• It can be in attributive position
They usually come before the noun or the
pronoun
The serious rabbit and the handsome strangers
It can be predicative
They usually come after noun and pronoun
He is poor and I am rich

4. Adjectives
• Adjectives which can used only attributively
• Inner outer latter former late (dead)
• The inner circle
• The outer circle
• The former principal of college
• The problem of unemployment and the
problem of inflation: the latter problem is
more serious.

5. Adjectives
• Mere sheer utter
All these words suggest that noun they describe
have maximum (sheer, utter) or the minimum
(mere) quantity of qualities usually associated
with the noun.
You are a mere child (you are far too young to
understand)
It is sheer waste of time and money.
What utter nonsense!

6. Adjectives
• Kinds of adjective
• Adjectives of quality
• Adjectives of quantity
• Proper Adjectives.
• Adjectives of number
• Demonstrative Adjectives.
• Possessive Adjectives
• Interrogative Adjective
• Emphasizing Adjectives
• Exclamatory Adjectives

7. Adjectives
• Adjectives of quality
• Also known as descriptive article
• Shivaji was a brave warrior
• The court’s decision was just
• They answer “of what kind”
Adjectives of quantity
Can you spare some money
He had no patience
She did not need any help
• They answer “how much”

8. Adjectives
• Proper Adjectives
• Derived from proper noun
• Chinese goods (china- Chinese)
• Indian culture (India- Indian)
• Adjectives of number (numeral adjectives)
• I have two cars.
• All man are mortal.
• They answer “how many”

9. Adjectives
• Adjectives of number
• We have
• 1A ) definite numeral – one, two, three
(cardinal)
• - B) first ,second ,third(ordinal)
• 2 Indefinite numeral adjectives – all,some,any ,no
few, several
• 3) distributive – each, every,either,neither

10. Adjectives
• The demonstrative adjectives
that, these, this, those, and what answer the
question "Which?"
• I'm going to open that present.
• Whose is this bag?
• These mangoes are very sweet.
• A demonstrative adjective may look like a
demonstrative pronoun, but it is used differently
in the sentence: it is an adjective, used to modify
a noun or pronoun.

11. Adjectives
• A possessive adjective modifies a noun by telling
whom it belongs to. It answers the question
"Whose?"
• Examples are: his, her, its, my, our, their, and your.
• You can share my work.
• Have you seen their place?
• This is his room.
• They are our friends.

12. Adjectives
• The interrogative adjectives are used with nouns
to ask questions. Examples are what, which and
whose.
• What movie do you want to see?
• Which leaves turn color first?
• Whose son is he?
• An interrogative adjective may look like an
interrogative pronoun, but it is used differently in
the sentence: it is an adjective, used to modify a
noun

13. Adjectives
• Emphasizing Adjectives
• OWN ,VERY
I locked the door with my own hand.
This is the very book I needed.
Exclamatory adjectives:
What
What a blessing!
What folly!

14. Adjectives
• Comparison of adjectives
• Adjectives change in form to show comparison.
• These change forms are reflected in the three
degree of comparison
• Positive degree – it shows that adjective is in its
simple form. it the denotes mere existence of
some quality .it is useful when no comparison is
made.
• Sweet ,Tall , Happy - positive degree

15. Adjectives
• Comparative Degree – denotes a higher
degree than the positive and is used when
two things or sets of things are compared.
The boy is stronger than that.
Apples are dearer than oranges.
Superlative Degree – denotes a highest degree
of the quality .it is used when more than two
things (or sets of things ) are compared
This boy is the strongest in the class.

16. Adjectives
• Formation of comparative and superlative
• Most adjective of one syllable, and some of
more than one form the comparative by
adding er and the superlative by adding est to
the positive.
Positive comparative superlative
• Sweet sweeter sweetest
• Young younger youngest

17. Adjectives
• When positive ends in e, only r and st are added.
• Brave braver bravest
• Large larger largest
When positive ends in y ,preceded by a consonant ,
the y is changed into i before adding er and est
Happy happier happiest
Heavy heavier heaviest

18. Adjectives
• When positive is a word of one syllable and
ends in single consonant preceded by a short
vowel , this consonant is doubled before
adding er and est.
• Red redder reddest
• Big bigger biggest
• Thin thinner thinnest

19. Adjectives
• Adjective of more than two syllable form
comparative and superlative by putting more
and most before the Positive
• Beautiful more beautiful most beautiful
• Difficult more difficult most difficult

20. Adjectives
• Following adjectives have lost their
comparative meaning and are used as a
positive adjectives.
• Interior exterior, ulterior, major ,minor.
Following comparative adjectives ending in –or
are followed by the preposition to
Inferior, superior, prior, anterior, posterior,
senior Junior