Adjectives (meaning and types with example)

 

Adjectives

Adjectives:- Adjectives are the words that describe the quality of noun and pronoun.

Examples:- Beautiful, brave, brilliant, charming, fantastic, honest, handsome, greedy, tall, short, gentle, great, intelligent, Sharp, lonely, nervous etc. 

 

Types of adjectives:-

1. Adjective of quality:- Which shows the quality of a person or thing. 

Examples:- 1. She is an intelligent student.

2. He is a honest man.

3. He is very clever boy. 

4. She is very beautiful girl.

(i) attributive use:- Use before noun

Examples:- 1. He is a handsome boy. 

2. She is very intelligent girl. 

(ii) predictive use:- Use after verb

Examples:- 1. He is handsome.

2. She is intelligent. 

3. He is hardworking. 

2. Comparative & Superlative:- 

Examples:- 1. My brother is taller than you. 

2. Blue whale is the longest mammal. 

3. Meera is intelligent than geeta. 

(i) positive/absolute degree:- Wise, old, strong, weak etc. 

(ii) comparative degree:- Wiser, older, stronger, weaker etc. 

(iii) superlative degree:- Wisest, oldest, strongest, weakest etc. 

3. Demonstrative adjectives:- To point somebody 

Examples:- That person, this dog, these clothes etc. 

4. Possessive adjectives:- 

Examples:- My sister, your pen, my book, his car etc. 

5. Interrogative adjectives:- What, which, whose etc. 

Examples:- 1. What color do you like? 

2. Which book do you have? 

6. Indefinite adjectives:- All, another, both, each, either, most, enough, very, few, many, more, little, several, such, any, whole, every etc.