Adjectives

 Adjectives

An adjective is a word that tells us more 

about a noun. 

It "describes" or "modifies" a noun.

Adjectives are used to identify or 

quantify individual people and 

unique things

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.

Adjective Examples:

In the following examples, the highlighted words are 

adjectives:

1.They live in a big, beautiful house.

2.Since it’s a hot day, Lisa is wearing a sleeveless shirt.

3.The mountaintops are covered in sparkling.

4.On her birthday, Brenda received an antique vase 

filled with fragrant.

Types of Adjectives

1:  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.

2: Interrogative Adjectives: ( Question)

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?

3: 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.

4: 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

•Age adjectives denote specific ages in 

numbers, as well as general ages.

•Examples are old, young, new, five-year-old.

•Qualifier adjectives are often regarded as part of a 

noun. They make nouns more specific; examples 

include log cabin, luxury car, and pillow cover.

•Color adjectives are exactly what they sound like – they’re 

adjectives that indicate color. Examples include pink, 

yellow, blue.

•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.