This document defines and provides examples of adjectives. It states that adjectives describe, identify, or quantify nouns and pronouns. Some common types of adjectives are descriptive adjectives, possessive adjectives, interrogative adjectives, and demonstrative adjectives. In English, adjectives typically precede the nouns they modify, but can also follow nouns with additional words between. Nouns can also sometimes function as adjectives to describe other nouns. The document notes that in some languages, adjectives have different forms depending on the gender and number of the noun they modify.