A Guide To Learn English Language

Adjec­tives are one of the parts of speech that mod­ify nouns or pro­nouns noun-equivalents which can be a sin­gle word, a phrase, or a clause. We already know how to use the adjec­tive prop­erly. In this post let us learn about dif­fer­ent kinds of adjectives.

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Let us recall the def­i­n­i­tion of adjec­tives with some example:

Exam­ple: great, sim­ple, silly, right­eous, brave, etc.

Adjec­tives extract answers from the fol­low­ing questions:

• What kind?
• How much?
• Which one?
• How many?

For exam­ple:

What kind? — A black shirt, a smart boy

How much? — More effort, less sugar

Which one?-Second in the list

How many?-ten bikes, sev­eral ways

There are five kinds of adjec­tives: com­mon adjec­tives, com­pound adjectives,

Arti­cles, indef­i­nite adjec­tives and proper adjectives,.

1. Com­mon adjec­tives are used to describe nouns or pronouns.

Intel­li­gent man

Red rose

Awe­some view

2. Proper adjec­tives are adjec­tives formed from proper nouns.

Mex­i­can veg­eta­bles (from the noun “Mexico”)

Newyork food (from the noun “Newyork”)

3. Com­pound adjec­tives are made up of more than one word.

Far-off state

Teen-age girl

4. Arti­cles are a spe­cial kind of adjec­tives. There are three: a, an and the.

‘The’ is a “def­i­nite arti­cle” because it always refers to a spe­cific thing.

‘A’ and ‘an’ are “indef­i­nite arti­cles” because they are used refer to gen­eral things i.e. ‘a’ with

con­so­nant sounds and ‘an’ before vowel sounds.

5. Indef­i­nite adjec­tives are adjec­tives that don’t spec­ify the spe­cific amount of some­thing being mentioned.

The fol­low­ing are indef­i­nite adjectives.

All, another, any, both, each, either, few, many, more, most, nei­ther, other, sev­eral, some.

Here are some impor­tant guide­lines con­cern­ing adjec­tives; when and how to use adjectives:

1. Use an adjec­tive when you mod­ify a noun or a pronoun.

Jimmy was unwill­ing to leave the campus.

2. Always use vivid adjec­tives in order to make your writ­ing more spe­cific and descriptive.

Give him a larger slice of the lus­cious cake.

3. Try to use an appro­pri­ate adjec­tive after a link­ing verb. A link­ing verb is a verb that con­nects the sub­ject with a descrip­tive word. The com­mon link­ing verbs are be (is, am, are, was, were, and so on),

appear, look, taste, feel, smell, sound, become, grow, remain, seem, stay, and turn.

Cake made this way tastes even more delicious.

4) To make com­par­isons, we will often use com­par­a­tive or superla­tive adjec­tives. Always remem­ber to use com­par­a­tive adjec­tives when dis­cussing two objects. We have to use superla­tive adjec­tives when we have three or more objects under com­par­i­son. Con­sider these examples.

John has a lap­top which has a far bet­ter con­fig­u­ra­tion than Linkin and Scotty.

Prof. Srini­vasa Ramanu­jan is con­sid­ered as the great­est of the geniuses.