This document discusses the different types of adjectives in English. It defines emphasizing adjectives as words that lay stress on a proceeding noun. The most commonly used emphasizing adjectives are "very" and "own", which are used to emphasize an idea. Examples of sentences using emphasizing adjectives include "Mind your own business" and "He has written all this with his own hands."

1. TYPES OF ADJECTIVE
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Emphasizing Adjectives lay stress on the
proceeding noun. The words used to
emphasize a noun are called Emphasizing
Adjectives.
‘Very’ and ‘own’ are the most commonly used
emphasizing adjectives which are used to
emphasize some idea.
Let’s see some examples-
Mind your own business.
Mind your own language.
I arranged it with my own efforts.
You did it with your own hands.
He has written all this with his own hands.
She has seen him by her own eyes.

2. PARTS OF SPEECH
NOUN PRONOUN
Name of a person, place, thing or idea . A pronoun is used in place of a noun or
noun phrase to avoid repetition.
ADJECTIVE VERB
Describes, modifies or gives more
information about a noun or a pronoun.
Shows an action or a state of being
ADVERB PREPOSITION
Modifies a verb, an adjective or another
adverb. It tells frequency.
Shows the relationship of a noun or
pronoun to another word.
CONJUNCTION INTERJECTION
Joins two words, ideas, phrases together
and shows how they are connected.
A word or phrase that expresses a strong
emotion. It is a short exclamation.

3. TYPES OF ADJECTIVE
DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES
PROPER ADJECTIVES
QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ADJECTIVES
NUMERAL ADJECTIVES
DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES
INTERROGATIVE AND EXCLAMATIVE ADJECTIVES
POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES
DISTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVES
EMPHASIZING ADJECTIVES

4. DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES
The descriptive adjectives can be simply defined as the
type of adjectives that are used to express the size, color, or
shape of a person, a thing, an animal, or a place. They are
used to provide more information to a noun by describing or
modifying it. (Adjetivo calificativo in Spanish)
If you find it hard to spot the descriptive adjectives in the
sentence, you can ask the question:
“Which one?” or more appropriately, “What does it look
like?” in reference to a noun.
She brushed her long brown hair.
The slender man…

5. PROPER ADJECTIVES
Proper adjective is a word that modifies nouns and pronouns
and is formed from a proper noun.
A proper noun is the specific name used for any person, place,
or thing.
Proper adjectives typically look like their original proper nouns
but have some sort of alternate ending in order to make them
adjectives.
Proper Adjective Examples:
proper noun: America
I live in America.
proper adjective: American
The Fourth of July is an American holiday.

6. QUALITATIVE AND
QUANTITATIVE ADJECTIVES
• Qualitative Adjectives are those Adjectives which
can describe quality of living beings or non-living
things. Qualitative Adjectives answer the
question, what kind? They are gradable which
means they can form degrees. Examples: Boring,
Interesting, scary, funny, dark, fair, silky, long,
neutral…
• We cannot count Quantitative Adjectives. They
are mostly abstract and perceived through our
senses. There are many Quantitative Adjectives.
Examples: Some, few, little, most, all, no, enough,
any, whole, sufficient, none.

7. NUMERAL ADJECTIVES
Numeral Adjectives are those adjectives which are used
to denote the number of nouns or the order in which
they stand. They are also commonly called Adjectives of
Number.
Examples: One, two, five, ten, first, second, third, tenth,
twelfth, last, all, some, few, each, most, many, no,
several…
3 types:
Definite Numeral Adjective: ordinal and cardinal numbers
Indefinite Numeral Adjective: Few, all, no, several, some,
many, most.
Distributive Numeral Adjective: Each, every, either,
neither.

8. DEMONSTRATIVE
ADJECTIVES
They help indicate a noun and are within close
proximity of that noun in a sentence. They are
especially helpful when you want to make it
clear which noun (which thing) you would like to
talk about. (Indexical meaning)

9. INTERROGATIVE AND
EXCLAMATORY ADJECTIVES
Interrogative adjective is used to question.
Words such as ‘what’ ‘whose’ ‘which’ are
examples.
These are followed by a noun immediately after
them.
Ex. What language do you study?
The word ‘what’ is an exclamatory adjective

10. POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES
FORM EXAMPLE
MY + NOUN My old book
YOUR + NOUN Your white t-shirt
HIS + NOUN His new car
HER + NOUN Her pretty face
ITS + NOUN Its long bone
OUR + NOUN Our amazing house
YOUR + NOUN Your stupid mistake
THEIR + NOUN Their forgotten keys
• No confundir nunca it’s (it is) con its (su).
• Se suelen usar con las partes del cuerpo: My head hurts
• Siempre concuerdan con la persona que posee, NUNCA con la cosa poseída
• No varían en plural aunque sea más de una cosa poseída. MYS KEYS
• Cuidado con his y her, ya que ambos significan su para la tercera persona.

11. DISTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVES
An Adjective used to refer to each and every person / thing
separately is called Distributive Adjective. i.e. Each, Every,
either, neither, any, one, both etc.
Examples
Each boy was gives a chocolate.
Every nation is proud of its culture
Neither of them got majority.
Either of you can collect the prize.
I love any song that Shakira sings.
Choose the one you prefer.
Both of them are in the room.

12. EMPHASIZING ADJECTIVES
Emphasizing Adjectives lay stress on the proceeding noun. The words used to
emphasize a noun are called Emphasizing Adjectives.
‘Very’ and ‘own’ are the most commonly used emphasizing adjectives which
are used to emphasize some idea.
Let’s see some examples-
Mind your own business.
Mind your own language.
I arranged it with my own efforts.
You did it with your own hands.
He has written all this with his own hands.
She has seen him by her own eyes.

13. ACTIVITIES
a) https://agendaweb.org/grammar/adjectives-
exercises.html
b) https://www.englisch-
hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/adjektiv_adverb.h
tm
c) https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/en
glish-grammar/adjectives
d) http://www.perfectyourenglish.com/gramma
r/adjectives-kinds.htm

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