What is adjective?
An adjective is a word that describes or modifies noun or pronoun . It express the quality of a noun and pronoun .
Example– tall , efficient , good , nice , etc
Example of sentences– He is a tall boy .
Rahul is efficient.
Types of adjective
1 . Articles – All the three articles ( a, an, the ) are adjectives.
Example – Let’s start for an adventure.
The Bengal tiger 🐅 roars in Sunderban .
2 . Comparative adjectives – These are adjectives used to compare two things . Generally we use suffixes like er , r ( the words end with e ) , ier ( in place of y at the end of two syllable words ) to form these adjectives. We can also use more , less .
Example – Rahul is stronger than Raju .
He is more busy than his brother.
3 . Superlative adjectives- These are adjectives refer something as the best or has least of a specific quality . We use suffixes like est, st ( the words end with e ) , iest ( if a two syllable word ends with y ) . We can also use most or least to form these type of adjectives. We generally use the before it .
Example – He is the best student in the class.
The process is the least effective.
4 . Absolute adjectives – These are adjectives to describe absolute state that can’t be compared . These can be modify by adding almost before these words.
Example – The work is completed .
The old man is dead now .
5 . Demonstrative adjectives – These are adjectives indicate specific person , thing or animal .
This, these, that, those are this type of adjective.
Example – This story is my favourite.
Bring that blue shirt 👕 for me .
6 . Possessive adjectives – These are used to indicate possession or ownership .
They are – My, our, your, his , her, their, its.
Example – This is our house 🏡 .
It is her pet 🐕 .
7 . Attributive adjectives – These are used as attributive or occuring before the noun .
Example – The honourable man appreciate my creativities.
The skillful man completed the task .
8 . Predicative Adjectives – These are used as predicate and seat not before the noun or pronoun , generally seat after linking verbs . These follow a linking verb like be verb .
Example – The man is honourable.
The man is skillful.
9 . Coordinate Adjectives – These are two or more objectives to modify the same noun or pronoun in a sentence and can be separated by and or commas .
Example– He is cool and composed.
He gave me a nice , pleasant and reasonable dress .
10 . Appositive adjectives – It is an adjective ( can be series of adjectives also ) that occur after the noun it modifies . Typically set off by dashes or commas .
Example – The man, old and efficient, still works here .
11 .Participial adjectives – These are adjectives which are identical to the participle form of a verbs ( ended with ing or ed or en ) .
Example – He was so relaxed .
He is a smiling boy.
12 . Proper adjectives – These are adjectives formed from proper nouns and we use capital letter to start these words . These words are used to refer the origin of something or someone .
Example – He is an Australian cricketer .
I like to listen Indian songs .
13 . Compound adjectives – This type of adjective is formed using two or more words to express a single idea . We use hyphen between words , if we use these before the noun ( attributive case ) and we don’t use hyphens , if we use these as predicates .
Example – The teacher gave us an in- depth idea .
The place is well known .
14 . Iterrogative adjectives – The interrogative adjectives – what , which and whose also modify nouns .
Example – What time we shall join ?
Which topics preferred by you ?
Whose books 📚 were those ?
15 . Nominal adjectives – These adjectives work as a noun and typically preceded by the definite article the .
Example – All the elderly appear in the show .
The reach should be helpful to the poor .
16 . Denominal adjectives – This type of adjective formed from a noun generally with the addition of suffixes like ish, ly, esque .
Example – My father thinks that I am childish .
I visited a picturesque village .
17 . Numbers adjectives – When numbers are used in sentences they are almost adjectives.
Example – They are a group of ten .
18 . Indefinite adjectives – These are used to refer to non specific things or people.
Commonly they are – any , no, many, few, several .
Example – He has bought the property for many .
We visited several shops before buying the dress .
