ENGLISH200 ( ADJECTIVES)

• Descriptive adjectives describe nouns and pronouns, providing information and attributes
• Most adjectives belong to this type and are also called descriptive adjectives
• Quantitative adjectives provide information about the quantity of nouns/pronouns
• They answer the questions 'how much' and 'how many'
• Can be cardinal or ordinal numbers
• Demonstrative adjectives directly refer to something or someone
• Include words like: this, that, these, those
• Always come before the word they modify
• Possessive adjectives indicate possession or ownership
• Words like: my, his, her, our, their, your
• Always come before a noun
• Interrogative adjectives ask a question and must be followed by a noun or pronoun
• Include words like: which, what, whose
• Indefinite adjectives describe or modify a noun unspecifically
• Provide indefinite/unspecific information about the noun
• Compound adjectives are formed when compound nouns modify other nouns
• Combine more than one word into a single unit to modify a noun
• Proper adjectives come from proper nouns
• Articles like 'a', 'an', 'the' are also considered adjectives as they modify nouns
• Order of adjectives is important and follows a specific pattern
• Degrees of comparison in adjectives: positive, comparative, superlative
• Positive degree is the normal form of an adjective or adverb
• Comparative degree shows greater or lesser degree, comparing two things
• Superlative degree shows the greatest or least degree, comparing more than two things
• Examples of adjectives in different degrees: sharp, happy, precise, fast, merrily, badly