This document discusses different types of adjectives in English grammar. It defines adjectives as words that describe nouns and provides examples of different categories of adjectives including adjectives of quality, quantity, number, possessive adjectives, and demonstrative adjectives. It also discusses the order of adjectives and provides exercises for learners to identify and classify different adjectives.

1. English Grammar
Adjectives
Rajashri Bhairamadgi

2. Warm Up
Look at the picture and write 4 adjectives to describe it
Warm-upp
Look at the pictures and write four adiectives to describe them.
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3. What is adjective ?
A word that tells us more about a noun
is called an adjective.
E.g.
n long scale
n short pencil

4. Solve it …
n He has ____ hair.
n Nimmo has a _____ dress.
n Aneez has a _____ sheep.
n I have never tasted such _____ food.
n The children were scared by the ___
thunder.
n I have planted a ____ seed in the pot.
n The ___ film was enjoyed by all my friends.

5. Adjective of quality …
Adjective that describe the quality of a
person, place, animal or thing are
called adjectives of quality.
E.g.
n Honest man
n Tall giraffe
n True incident

6. Adjective of quantity …
Adjectives that describe the quantity of
nouns are called adjectives of quantity.
E.g.
n Several children
n Some rice
n Many packages

7. Adjectives of number ...
Adjectives that describe the number of
nouns are called adjectives of number.
E.g.
n Fourth game
n Twenty-six years
n One dish

8. Adjectives of number …
Adjective
of number
Cardinal Ordinal

9. Cardinal adjective of number
Adjectives hat tell us about the number
of nouns are called cardinal adjectives
of number.
E.g.
n Ten toys
n Five cars

10. Ordinal adjective of number
Adjectives that tell us about the order of
a person or a thing in a series are
called ordinal adjectives of number.
E.g.
n First prize
n Third level

11. Possessive adjective
Adjectives that show who owns or
possesses something are called
possessive adjectives.
E.g.
n Her dress
n My brother
n Their house

12. Demonstrative adjective…
Adjectives that help in pointing out a specific
person, place, animal or thing are called
demonstrative adjectives.
E.g.
n That man
n This park
n Those people

13. Study the table…
this Points to a person, an animal or a thing
that is nearby
that Points to a person, an animal or a thing
that is far away
these Point to people, animals or things that
are nearby
those Points to people, animals or things that
are far away

14. Underline the adjective and
mention its type ….
1. The cold days will be here soon.
2. That is my uncles, Mr. Sharma.
3. They have a beautiful house.
4. These are my roller skates.
5. I got the first position in class.

15. Underline the adjective and
mention its type ….
6. My brother gave me this watch.
7. Akbar was a wise king.
8. Ganga is a long river.
9. There was not much rain in this season.
10. Throw these papers in the dustbin.

16. Order of adjectives
1
Opinion
2
Size
3
Shape
4
Age
5
Colour
6
Nationality
7
Material
beautiful big round new blue Indian plastic
soft small oval old black Arabian Woollen

17. Rearrange the words according
to order …
1. Square/ small/ Japanese/ red/ scrapbook
2. Purple/ funny/ new/ pen
3. funny/ young/ little/ boys
4. beautiful/ yellow/ cotton/ Indian sari
5. wooden/ small/ brown/ Turkish table

18. Some commonly used
set of adjectives
a-z

20. Thank you