Adjective

In this lesson i will discuss the following questions:

a) What parts of speech the italiczed words are in the text above?
b) What is an adjective?
c)What different types of adjectives are there in English?
d) What roles do adjectives play in a sentence?

Adjectives

Lesson 5


Adjectives are words that are used to describe nouns and pronouns and to
quantify and identify them.
For example:

He was wearing a blue shirt.

Here 'blue' is an adjective as it is describing the noun 'shirt' by answering the
question 'What kind of shirt?'

There are seven rooms in the house.

Here 'seven' is also an adjective as it is mentioning the quantity/the number
of the noun 'rooms, answering the question 'how many rooms?.

There are different types of adjectives based on their relationship with a noun
and what they describe about the noun. There are five categories of
adjectives:

Types Of Adjectives:

1. Adjectives Of Quality
2. Adjectives Of Quantity
3. Adjectives Of Number  
4. Demonstrative Adjectives
5. Interrogative Adjectives    

Now read about each type of Adjectives:

1.Adjectives of Quality - These adjectives are used to describe the nature of a noun. They give an idea about the nature of the noun by answering the question 'what kind', e.g. honest, kind, large, bulky, beautiful, ugly, etc.

Dhaka is a large city with many places of historical interest.

Shaila is a beautiful woman.

2. Adjectives of Quantity - These adjectives help to show the approximate amount of the noun or pronoun. These adjectives do not provide exact numbers; rather they tell us the amount of the noun, e.g. all, half, many, few, little, no, enough, great, etc.

They have finished most of the rice.

Many people came to visit the fair.

3. Adjectives of Number - These adjectives are used to show the number of nouns and their position in a phrase. There are three different types within adjectives of number; they are:

one, two, twenty, thirty-three, etc. (also known as cardinals)

first, second, third, seventh, etc. (also known as ordinals)

4. Demonstrative Adjectives - These adjectives are used to indicate a
particular noun or pronoun -this, that, these and those.

That bag belongs to Neela.

Try using this paintbrush in your art class.

These flowers are lovely.

5. Interrogative Adjectives - These adjectives are used to ask questions about
nouns or-pronouns. They are - what, which and whose.

• What test did I miss?
• Which book of this author do you like?
• Whose pen is this?

★Next, i will talk about Verbs

Also read this:
* Parts of speech
* Noun
* Countable Noun
* Uncountable Noun