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Adjectives

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Adjectives
  • describes properties or qualities. they are called modifiers since they modify (or change) the meaning slightly (of noun or pronoun)
  • usually comes immediately before the noun, and not after it
    • attributive adjectives
      • come before noun
    • predicative adjectives
      • come after verb
      • examples:
        • I feel good
        • It sounds great
        • The water grew cool

Adjectives - Types

Description

Examples

Qualitative
  • used to tell the attributes/quality
  • The old farmer was sitting
  • young, empty, small, spacious

Quantitative
  • used to tell how many/much of things are spoken of
  • Many students have passed
  • many, few, most

Demonstrative
  • point out particular nouns or pronouns
  • This boy has passed
  • This, That
  • These, Those

Indefinite
  • Few have failed the test

Interrogative
  • Which question can you answer?

Possessive
  • This is my shirt

Distributive
  • refers to a particular noun out of a group or the whole group altogether
  • examples:
    • Each girl received a prize

each, every, all, both, either, neither

Adjectives - Comparisons

three degrees of comparisons

Positive

Comparative

Superlative

  • dark
  • tall
  • useful
  • fine
  • strong
  • lovely
  • near
  • darker
  • taller
  • more useful
  • finer
  • stronger
  • lovelier
  • nearer
  • darkest
  • tallest
  • most useful
  • finest
  • strongest
  • loveliest
  • nearest

Adjectives - Quantitative

Uncountable Nouns

Both

Countable Nouns

  • How much
  • a little
  • a bit (of)
  • a great deal of
  • a large amount of
  • a large quantity of
  • How much/many
  • no/none
  • not any
  • some (any)
  • a lot of
  • plenty of
  • lots of
  • How many
  • a few
  • a number (of)
  • several
  • a large number of
  • a great number of
  • a majority of