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ADJECTIVES
Tina and Ruby are talking about a Painting.
We use adjectives all the time, sometimes without even realizing it!
An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun.
An adjective can add colour and life to your sentence, and it can add important information, but that’s not all. Adjectives have many other uses. They can tell you the quantity (how much) and quality (how well) of things and they can help you compare two things. They are useful tools for speaking English as well.
TYPES OF ADJECTIVES:
TYPES OF ADJECTIVES :
Descriptive Adjectives
The happy twins wait for their loving grandparents.
She gave gorgeous yellow roses to her mother.
Fox is a clever wild animal.
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Descriptive adjectives tell us about the colour, shape, size, age and condition of a noun.
COLOUR
SHAPE
SIZE
CONDITION
the blue sky
a flat chord
a tiny hairpin
a clever crow
a yellow car
a curved line
a large truck
a busy day
a pink rose
an oval mirror
a giant tree
a dead dog
I drank half of my mango drink.
I ate some roasted chicken.
He has many cherries in his large pocket.
Linda ate a whole burger
The laundry bag is full of clothes to be washed.
Quantitative Adjectives
Quantitative Adjectives describes the quantity of something.
These words answer the question “how much?” or “how many?” Numbers like one and thirty are this type of adjective. So are more general words like many, half and a lot.
Possessive adjectives show possession. They describe to whom a thing belongs. Some of the most common possessive adjectives include :
My
Belonging to me
His
Belonging to him
Her
Belonging to her
Their
Belonging to them
Your
Belonging to you
Our
Belonging to us
Possessive Adjectives
Possessive Adjectives
Examples :
(a) I have a book ---- My book is red
(b) You have a book ---- Your book is red
(c) She has a book ---- Her book is red
(d) He has a book ---- His book is red
Demonstrative Adjectives
Demonstrative Adjective describes a noun.
This chair is broken.
That car is expensive.
These clothes are wet.
Those birds are flying south.
A demonstrative adjective describes “which” noun or pronoun you are referring to.These adjectives include the words:
This ---- Used to refer to a singular noun close to you.
That ---- Used to refer to a singular noun far from you.
These ---- Used to refer to a plural noun close to you.
Those ---- Used to refer to a plural noun far from you.
Demonstrative adjectives always come before the word they are modifying.
