Kinds of Adjectives

Adjectives give additional information about nouns. They tell us about the colour, size, nature, condition or quality of a noun.

Study the examples given below.

• She wore a blue dress. (Here the adjective blue tells us about the colour of the dress.)
• He is a clever boy. (Here the adjective clever tells us about a particular quality of the boy.)
• It is an old house. (Here the adjective old gives information about the condition of the house.)

Kinds of adjectives

There are different kinds of adjectives.

Adjectives of quality

Examples are: kind, clever, beautiful, intelligent, old, soft, hard etc.

• She is a young woman.
• It was a difficult task.
• You are beautiful.

Adjectives of quantity

Adjectives of quantity answer the question how much. Examples are: little, any, some, much etc.

• I ate a little food.
• We don’t have much money.
• Some effort is required to learn a foreign language. I drank the whole milk.

Adjectives of number

Adjectives of number answer the question how many. Examples are: few, many, all, one, two, three etc.

• She has few friends.
• All students passed the test.
• I have two sisters.

Possessive Adjectives

Possessive adjectives are words like my, his, her, their, your and our.

• This is my bag.
• Where is your bag?

Demonstrative Adjectives

Demonstrative adjectives answer the question which. Examples are: this, that, these and those

• Those apples are ripe.
• This colour does not suit me.

Distributive adjectives

These are words like each, every, either and neither. We use a singular noun after distributive adjectives.

• Each story is different.
• Neither answer is correct.
• Every adult citizen has a vote.

Interrogative adjectives

These are words like which, what, whose

• Whose bag is this?
• What colour do you want?

Sections in this article

Adjectives

Adjectives placed before nouns

Adjectives placed after verbs

Adjectives without Nouns

Adjectives: order before nouns

Kinds of Adjectives

Adjectives with and

Complements of adjectives

See also

Adjective clauses

Relative clauses

Relative pronouns

Identifying relative clauses

Omission of relative pronouns

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