Adjectives and its Types with examples PDF!
Here we are going to discuss adjectives and its types with examples in detail, this lesson is best for students of grade 3 to grade 5 and above.
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Definition of Adjective
Adjectives are describing words. They describe a noun or a pronoun.
Types of Adjective with Examples – Video
Descriptive Adjective or Adjective of Quality
They describe nouns and give information about them.
Examples:
Tallboy, Strong man, beautiful lady, bright day, etc.
Adjective of Quantity or Numeric adjective
They talk about the quantity of a noun. They answer such questions as ‘how much’ or ‘how many’.
Examples:
Three boys, eight girls, little sugar, many days, etc.
Predicative Adjectives
Predicative adjectives are those adjectives that follow a linking verb (be, seem, look, fell, become, etc. They are not placed before a Noun.
Examples:
- The bag is
- The girl is
Attributive Adjective
An Attributive adjective comes before a noun and not after a linking verb (be, seem, look, feel, become, etc.)
Examples:
- This is heavy
- She is a beautiful
Possessive Adjectives
They are the possessive pronouns used as adjectives. Thus they are named as possessive adjectives. “my, our, your, his, its, there” are possessive adjectives. Adjectives and its Types
Examples:
- This is my
- This is your
Demonstrative Adjectives
Demonstrative adjectives (this, that, these those, whose) show whether the noun they refer to is singular or plural and whether it is located near or far away from the speaker.
Examples:
- I like this
- She loved those days of her youth.
Indefinite Adjectives
An indefinite adjective is an adjective formed from an indefinite pronoun. The most common indefinite pronouns are: Adjectives and its Types
“all, any, anyone, anything, each, everybody, everyone, everything, few, many, nobody, none, several, some, somebody, and someone”
Examples:
- There are many people in the room.
- Some books are placed on the table.
Interrogative Adjectives
Interrogative adjectives modify nouns and ask questions. They include which, what, whose. They are used before nouns. Read the following examples.
Examples:
- What subject do you like most?
Comparative Adjectives
Comparative adjectives convey the supreme value of nouns. They are the superlative degrees of the adjectives.
Examples:
- She is the tallest girl in the class.
- This is the most interesting novel I have ever read.
Superlative Adjectives
Superlative adjectives are used to describe an object which is at the upper or lower limit of a quality.
Examples:
- She is the tallest girl in the class.
- This is the most interesting novel I have ever read.
Absolute Adjectives
The absolute adjectives are the adjectives that cannot be compared. Some absolute adjectives are “supreme, dead, total, final, fatal, eternal, perfect, unique, infinitive”.
Distributive Adjective
Ever, every, either, neither are called distributive adjectives.
Examples:
- I will give a book to each student in the class.
- Every student in the class is hardworking.
- You can have either book.
- You can have neither book. Adjectives and its Types
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