EL 102 - Module 5 (Adjectives)

• Adjective - is a part of speech used to describe or limit a noun or a noun equivalent.
• Adjective - Usually give us more information about a noun or pronoun by describing it or providing more information about it.
• Descriptive Adjectives - these are adjectives that describe the characteristics, traits, or qualities of noun or pronoun. Such as purple, friendly and attractive.
• Attributive Adjectives - these are adjectives that are indirectly next to the noun and pronoun that they modify. Usually attribute adjectives come directly before nouns and pronouns but they modify.
• Predicative/predicate adjectives - these are adjectives that appear in the predicate of a sentence as a subject complement rather than directly next to the nouns or pronouns that they modify. Predicate adjectives follow linking verbs in sentences and clauses.
• Proper Adjectives - these are adjectives formed from proper nouns.
• Proper adjectives - are commonly used to say that something is related to a specific person or place, such as, African, Napoleonic, and Shakespearian.
• Compound adjectives - these are adjectives are formed from multiple words, which are usually connected by hyphens. Some examples of compound adjectives include never-ending, cross-eyed, and run-of-the-mill.
• Participial adjectives - these are adjectives that are based on participles, which are words that usually end in -ed or -ing and derived from verbs, such as, amazing, impressed, and fascinating.
• Prominal Adjectives - these are actually pronouns used as modifiers in the sentence.
• Possessive Adjectives - are often used to express possessions or ownership. The most commonly used adjectives are my, your, its, her, his, our, their, and whose.
• Demonstrative Adjectives - are used to express relative positions in space and time. The most commonly used demonstrative adjectives are "this", "that", "these", and "those".
• Interrogative Adjectives - are adjectives that are used to ask questions, such as, what which, and whose.
• Numerical Adjectives - are adjectives which express numbers.
• Cardinal Adjectives - denote how many as one, two, three, four, five, etc.
• Ordinal Adjectives - denote in what order as first, second, third, etc.
• Multiplicative Adjectives - denote how many folds as single, double, triple, etc.
• Adjectives in Comparison - is the inflection of an adjective to indicate an increasing or decreasing degree of quality, or quantity.
• Positive Degree - is used when we make NO PARTICULAR COMPARISON.
• Comparative Adjectives - these are used to compare two different people or things to each other. Such as, smaller, faster, more expensive, and less reasonable.
• Superlative Adjectives - these are used to compare more than two people or things by indicating which one is the most supreme or extreme.
• It is formed by adding -est or by using the word “most.”
• Irregular Comparison - form the comparative and superlative by a CHANGE in the words themselves.
• First - Determiner (this, that, these, those, my, mine, your, yours, him, his, hers, they, their, some, our, several...) or articles (a, an, the).
• Second - Opinion, quality, or observation (lovely, useful, cute, difficult, comfortable).
• Third - Physical description of size (big, little, tall, short).
• Fourth - Age (old, new, young, adolescent).
• Fifth - Shape (circular, irregular, triangular).
• Sixth - Color (red, green, yellow).
• Seventh - Origin or maker’s source (English, Mexican, Japanese).
• Eighth - Materials (cotton, metal, plastic).
• Ninth - Qualifier (a noun used as an adjective to modify the noun that

  follows; campus activities, rocking chair, business suit).
• Tenth - Main/Head Noun that the adjectives are describing (activities, chair, suit).