Adjectives
Defination
An Adjective is a word which converts Properties of a noun and Pronoun.
- pooja is a beautiful girl.
- Amit is good at playing cricket
Kinds
- Adjective of Quality
- Adjective of Quantity
- Adjective of Number
- Demonstrative Adjective
- Distributive Adjective
- Interrogative Adjective
- Proper Adjective
1. Adjective of Quality : A Adjective Which expresses the properties of adjective noun, defect or color. that is known as Adjective of Quality.For Example
- An intelligent worker
In Sentance, Adjective of quality can be used in two ways.
- Attributive
- Predicative
1. Attributive : when a Adjective is used before Noun
- Today, it is dark outside
2. Predicative : When a Adjective is used after Verb
- Today, the cloud is dark
Adjective of Quality:
a) Quality – True , false , untrue
b) Color – white, black , green , red, blue , etc
c) Condition – Good , Bad , new , old etc
d) Teste – sweet , spicy , bitter, yammy , tasty , minty
e) Touch – cool, hot, dirty , dry ,hard , loose , rough
f) Sound – mute,noisy ,loud , speakless
g) Size – small , long , tall , thin , high , fat, huge
h) Shape – Round , flat , Square
i) Time – regular , irregular , annual , short , fast , slow
j) Emotions – Kind, Lazy , good, bad , happy , sad
k) Person – Nice , popular , beautiful ,shy , calm
Note -> in some condition , when there are more than one adjective in sentance. then , we make sequence like this
Opinion -> Size -> Age -> Shape -> Color -> Origin -> Material -> Purpose noun
For Example : Rajesh buys a beautiful ,small , round, red , indian , diamond , engagement ring
His small red hair doesn’t look beautiful
Short Trick To Remember order OSASCOMP
2. Adjective of Quantity :
Words are – Much , little , whole , a lot of , lots of , some , enough
3. Adjective of Number :
we divides Adjective of number in two parts
A) Definite
B) indefinite
A) Definite : it is also divided into three parts
- Cardinal : one , two , three , four
- Ordinal : First , second , third
- Multiplicative : single , double , triple , forth fold
Lets see The Order of Definite Adjective of number
if we find all of three Definite adjectives in one sentance so we will follow the order
Ordinal + Cardinal + Multiplicative
For Example – First three double badrooms
B) Indefinite : words are – many a great many , a god many , lot of ,
Indefinite + Definite
For Example – many double badrooms
4. Demostrative Adjectives :
a) Definite : this / that / these /those / such / the other
b) indefinite : a / an / certain / a certain / other / another / some /any
Rules : 1 ) if a/an /a certain / another / this/that then after that Singular Countable Noun
2) Words Such / the same / the other / any then we will use Singular or Plural Countable Noun
3) these / those /certain /other then , Plural Countable Noun
5. Distributive Adjectives :
Words Each , Every , Either , neither , each and every
a) Use Of Each – For Two or more than Two
for example- each girl is beautiful
b) Use of Every / Each and every – for more than two
for example – there are five students in class . each and every student is smart and an intelligent.
c) Use Of Either or Neither – for only two
d) when we use Distributive adjectives then We dont use articls before noun
6. Intrrogative Adjectives : words Which , what , whose for example
- what is your name ?
- Which pen is yours ?
- Whose phone is this ?
7. Proper Adjectives : Adjectives that are made from Proper noun
- India – Indian
- america – american
- china – chinese