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Adjectives::Ghadeer Abdullah Salman:A

This document discusses different types of adjectives. It begins by defining adjectives as words that describe or modify other words. It then provides examples of common adjectives like "big" and "beautiful." The rest of the document outlines various categories of adjectives including articles, possessive adjectives, demonstrative adjectives, coordinate adjectives, number adjectives, interrogative adjectives, indefinite adjectives, and attributive adjectives. It provides definitions and examples for each adjective type to illustrate how adjectives are used.

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Adjectives::Ghadeer Abdullah Salman:A

This document discusses different types of adjectives. It begins by defining adjectives as words that describe or modify other words. It then provides examples of common adjectives like "big" and "beautiful." The rest of the document outlines various categories of adjectives including articles, possessive adjectives, demonstrative adjectives, coordinate adjectives, number adjectives, interrogative adjectives, indefinite adjectives, and attributive adjectives. It provides definitions and examples for each adjective type to illustrate how adjectives are used.

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​Adjectives

Name​ :Ghadeer Abdullah Salman


Section​ :A

2020 June
Adjectives
Adjectives are words that describe or modify other words, making your writing
and speaking much more specific, and a whole lot more interesting. Words
like small, blue, and sharp are descriptive, and they are all examples of
adjectives. Because adjectives are used to identify or quantify individual
people and unique things, they are usually positioned before the noun or
pronoun that they modify. Some sentences contain multiple adjectives.

Adjective Examples
In the following examples, the highlighted words are adjectives:

1_They live in a big, beautiful


2_Since it’s a hot day, Lisa is wearing a sleeveless
3_The mountaintops are covered in sparkling
4_On her birthday, Brenda received an antique vase filled with fragrant
Types of Adjectives
Remember that adjectives can modify as well as describe other words, and
you’ll find it much easier to identify different types of adjectives when you see
them.

Articles
There are only three articles, and all of them are adjectives: a, an, and the.
Because they are used to discuss non-specific things and people, a and an
are called indefinite articles. For example:

*I’d like a
*Let’s go on an
Neither one of these sentences names a specific banana or a certain
adventure. Without more clarification, any banana or adventure will do.

The word the is called the definite article. It’s the only definite article, and it is
used to indicate very specific people or things:
*Please give me a banana. I’d like the one with the green stem.
*Let’s go on an adventure. The Grand Canyon mule ride sounds perfect!

Possessive Adjectives
As the name indicates, possessive adjectives are used to indicate
possession. They are:

My
Your
His
Her
Its
Our
Their
Possessive adjectives also function as possessive pronouns.

Demonstrative Adjectives
Like the article the, demonstrative adjectives are used to indicate or
demonstrate specific people, animals, or things. These, those, this and that
are demonstrative adjectives.

These books belong on that


This movie is my favorite.
Please put those cookies on the blue plate.

Coordinate Adjectives
Coordinate adjectives are separated with commas or the word and, and
appear one after another to modify the same noun. The adjectives in the
phrase bright, sunny day and long and dark night are coordinate adjectives.
In phrases with more than two coordinate adjectives, the word and always
appears before the last one; for example: The sign had big, bold, and bright
letters.

Be careful, because some adjectives that appear in a series are not


coordinate. In the phrase green delivery truck, the words green and delivery
are not separated by a comma because green modifies the phrase delivery
truck. To eliminate confusion when determining whether a pair or group of
adjectives is coordinate, just insert the word and between them. If and works,
then the adjectives are coordinate and need to be separated with a comma.
Numbers Adjectives
When they’re used in sentences, numbers are almost always adjectives. You
can tell that a number is an adjective when it answers the question “How
many?”

The stagecoach was pulled by a team of six


He ate 23 hotdogs during the contest, and was sick afterwards.
Interrogative Adjectives
There are three interrogative adjectives: which, what, and whose. Like all
other types of adjectives, interrogative adjectives modify nouns. As you
probably know, all three of these words are used to ask questions.

Which option sounds best to you?


What time should we go?
Whose socks are those?

Indefinite Adjectives
Like the articles a and an, indefinite adjectives are used to discuss
non-specific things. You might recognize them, since they’re formed from
indefinite pronouns. The most common indefinite adjectives are any, many,
no, several, and few.

*Do we have any peanut butter?


*Grandfather has been retired for many
*There are no bananas in the fruit bowl.
*I usually read the first few pages of a book before I buy it.
*We looked at several cars before deciding on the best one for our family.

Attributive Adjectives
Attributive adjectives talk about specific traits, qualities, or features – in other
words, they are used to discuss attributes. There are different kinds of
attributive adjectives:

*Observation adjectives such as real, perfect, best, interesting, beautiful or


cheapest can indicate value or talk about subjective measures.
*Size and shape adjectives talk about measurable, objective qualities
including specific physical properties. Some examples include small, large,
square, round, poor, wealthy, slow and
*Age adjectives denote specific ages in numbers, as well as general ages.
Examples are old, young, new, five-year-old, and
*Color adjectives are exactly what they sound like – they’re adjectives that
indicate color. Examples include pink, yellow, blue, and
*Origin adjectives indicate the source of the noun, whether it’s a person,
place, animal or thing. Examples include American, Canadian, Mexican,
French.
*Material adjectives denote what something is made of. Some examples
include cotton, gold, wool, and
*Qualifier adjectives are often regarded as part of a noun. They make nouns
more specific; examples include log cabin, luxury car, and pillow cover.

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