What Are Adjectives?

Adjectives:

An adjective give information about the quality, number or quantity of Nouns. Or Words that tell more about the quality, number or quantity of Nouns are called Adjectives.

Adjectives are words that describe the qualities or states of being of nouns, An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes its referent. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun.

Examle: He had a round face

He took some hours to do that work.

silly, yellow, fun, fast, many, few, millions, eleven.

Types of Adjectives:

Adjective of Quality:

The adjectives that are used to describe the nature of a subject or a noun or showing the kind or quality of nouns or pronouns are called Adjective of Quality.  Adjectives of quality are also termed as descriptive adjectives as they describe the kind of noun.

Adjectives which answer the question of what kind are called adjective of quality.

Example:  These flowers smell lovely.

It’s a beautiful day.

The sky is blue

She has bought a pink saree.

More Examples of adjective of quality:

Black       sour       gentle      sweet      kind        thin       big        red

small        ripe       Square     raw         round      thick     good      long

cruel        short

Adjective of Number

The adjectives that are used to describe the  number of a subject or a nouns or pronouns are called Adjective of Number.

Adjectives which answer the question of exactly how many  are called adjective of Number. These adjectives are used with countable Nouns.

Examples: Please give me two mangoes.

                      There is one piece of pizza left.

                      Second place goes to Mahendra!

He has Many friends.

More Examples of adjective of Number:

Double      Many     Most     several         too many

Certain      none      more       any             half

few         First       second     Third         fourth

Adjective of Quantity

 The adjectives that are used to describe estimated amount of  a subject or a nouns or pronouns are called Adjective of Quantity.

Adjectives which answer the question of exactly how much  are called adjective of Quantity . These adjectives are used with uncountable Nouns.

Examples: Sushil has much patience.

                     She is very poor

He has enough money to start business.

Please pass me some salt.

More Examples of adjective of quantity:

Most      whole    all     any      a little

Little     enough     less