{"id":73645,"date":"2020-04-02T10:20:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T10:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73645"},"modified":"2020-04-02T10:20:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T10:20:25","slug":"kinds-of-adjectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/kinds-of-adjectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinds Of Adjectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/what-are-adjectives-2\/\"><b>Adjectives<\/b><\/a>\u00a0are describing words. They tell us about the colour, size, shape, nature, quality or condition of a noun. Examples are:\u00a0<b>blue, green, round, square, good, old, tall, brave, beautiful, tired, happy, exhausted<\/b>\u00a0etc.<\/p>\n<p>An adjective usually describes a noun and denotes a temporary or permanent quality associated with that noun.<\/p>\n<p>For example, an\u00a0<b>intelligent boy<\/b>\u00a0is a boy who is distinguished from other boys by being permanently intelligent. A\u00a0<b>square<\/b>\u00a0table is a table that is distinguished from other tables by being square in shape. A\u00a0<b>brave<\/b>\u00a0soldier is a soldier who is distinguished from other soldiers by being brave.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We need\u00a0<b>round\u00a0<\/b>tables.<\/li>\n<li>Tokyo is a\u00a0<b>big\u00a0<\/b>city.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Adjectives<\/b>\u00a0can answer the question &#8216;What kind?&#8217; (<b>round\u00a0<\/b>tables;\u00a0<b>big\u00a0<\/b>city), &#8216;How much?&#8217; (<b>some\u00a0<\/b>rice,\u00a0<b>little\u00a0<\/b>effort) &#8216;Which one?&#8217; (<b>red\u00a0<\/b>shirt,\u00a0<b>second\u00a0<\/b>wife), and &#8216;How many?&#8217; (<b>two\u00a0<\/b>boys,\u00a0<b>ten\u00a0<\/b>books).<\/p>\n<h2>Kinds of adjectives<\/h2>\n<p>There are different kinds of adjectives.<\/p>\n<h3>Adjectives of quantity<\/h3>\n<p>An\u00a0adjective of quantity\u00a0answers the question how much. Examples are:\u00a0<b>some, little, much, enough, sufficient, insufficient, all, whole, great, any<\/b>\u00a0etc.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have bought\u00a0<b>some bacon<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>I haven\u2019t got\u00a0<b>much money<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>We have got\u00a0<b>enough time<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>There is\u00a0<b>little water<\/b>\u00a0in the bottle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Adjectives of number or numeral adjectives<\/h3>\n<p>They answer the question &#8216;how many?&#8217;\u00a0Numeral adjectives\u00a0are of three kinds:<\/p>\n<p><b>1. Definite numeral adjectives<\/b>\u00a0(e.g. one, two, three, first, second, third etc.)<br \/>\n<b>2. Indefinite numeral adjectives<\/b>\u00a0(e.g. some, any, no, several, few, all etc.)<br \/>\n<b>3.Distributive numeral adjectives<\/b>\u00a0(e.g. each, every, either, neither)<\/p>\n<h3>Possessive Adjectives<\/h3>\n<p>A\u00a0<b>possessive adjective<\/b>\u00a0modifies a noun by telling whom it belongs to. It answers the question\u00a0<b>&#8220;Whose?&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Examples are: his, her, its, my, our, their, and your.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can share\u00a0<b>my\u00a0<\/b>rice.<\/li>\n<li>Have you seen\u00a0<b>their\u00a0<\/b>house?<\/li>\n<li>This is\u00a0<b>his\u00a0<\/b>room.<\/li>\n<li>They are\u00a0<b>our\u00a0<\/b>friends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Demonstrative Adjectives<\/h3>\n<p>The\u00a0demonstrative adjectives\u00a0that, these, this, those, and\u00a0<b>what<\/b>\u00a0answer the question &#8220;Which?&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m going to open<b>\u00a0that\u00a0<\/b>present.<\/li>\n<li>Whose is\u00a0<b>this<\/b>\u00a0bag?<\/li>\n<li><b>These\u00a0<\/b>mangoes are very sweet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A demonstrative adjective may look like a demonstrative pronoun, but it is used differently in the sentence.<\/p>\n<h3>Distributive adjectives<\/h3>\n<p>There are four\u00a0<b>distributive adjectives<\/b>\u00a0in English:\u00a0<b>each, every, either\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>neither<\/b>.\u00a0Distributive adjectives\u00a0are used with singular nouns. The following verb is usually singular, but can be plural in a very formal style.<\/p>\n<h3>Interrogative Adjectives<\/h3>\n<p>The\u00a0<b>interrogative adjectives<\/b>\u00a0are used with nouns to ask questions. Examples are\u00a0<b>what, which\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>whose<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>What<\/b>\u00a0movie do you want to see?<\/li>\n<li><b>Which\u00a0<\/b>leaves turn color first?<\/li>\n<li><b>Whose\u00a0<\/b>son is he?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An interrogative adjective may look like an interrogative pronoun, but it is used differently in the sentence: it is an adjective, used to modify a noun or pronoun.<\/p>\n<h3>Indefinite Adjectives<\/h3>\n<p>An\u00a0<b>indefinite adjective\u00a0<\/b>gives indefinite, or general, information. Often, it answers the question &#8220;How much?&#8221; Some common indefinite adjectives are\u00a0all,\u00a0any,\u00a0each,\u00a0every, few, many, and\u00a0<b>some<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Many\u00a0<\/b>children like dinosaurs.<\/li>\n<li>Did you want<b>\u00a0some\u00a0<\/b>bananas?<\/li>\n<li>Is there\u00a0<b>any\u00a0<\/b>water in the bottle?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An indefinite adjective may look like an indefinite pronoun, but it is used differently in the sentence: it is an adjective, used to modify a noun or pronoun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adjectives\u00a0are describing words. They tell us about the colour, size, shape, nature, quality or condition of a noun. Examples are:\u00a0blue, green, round, square, good, old, tall, brave, beautiful, tired, happy, exhausted\u00a0etc. An adjective usually&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[537,2430,2428,2431,2429,2427,323],"class_list":["post-73645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-adjectives","tag-demonstrative-adjectives","tag-different-types-of-adjectives","tag-distributive-adjectives","tag-indefinite-adjectives","tag-kinds-of-adjectives","tag-possessive-adjectives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73646,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73645\/revisions\/73646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}