Adjectives describe or give information about
nouns or
pronouns.
For example:-
The
grey dog barked. (The adjective
grey describes the noun "
dog".)
The good news is that the form of an adjective does not change. It does not matter if the noun being modified is male or female, singular or plural, subject or object.
Some adjectives give us factual information about the noun - age, size colour etc (fact adjectives - can't be argued with). Some adjectives show what somebody thinks about something or somebody - nice, horrid, beautiful etc (opinion adjectives - not everyone may agree).
If you are asked questions with which, whose, what kind, or how many, you need an adjective to be able to answer.
There are different types of adjectives in the English language:
- Numeric: six, one hundred and one
- Quantitative: more, all, some, half, more than enough
- Qualitative: colour, size, smell etc.
- Possessive: my, his, their, your
- Interrogative: which, whose, what
- Demonstrative: this, that, those, these
!Note - The articles
a, an, and
the and the possessives
my, our, your, and
their are also adjectives.
Adjectives can be used to give your opinion about something.
good, pretty, right, wrong, funny, light, happy, sad, full, soft, hard etc.
For example: He was a silly boy.
Adjectives can be used to describe size.
big, small, little, long, tall, short, same as, etc.
For example: "The big man." or "The big woman".
.Adjectives can be used to describe
time.
late, early, bed, nap, dinner, lunch, day, morning, night, etc.
For example: "She had an early start."