The Adjective

THE ADJECTIVE

A word used with a noun to describe or point out, the person, animal, place or thing which the noun names, or to tell the number or quality, is called an adjective.

Kinds of adjective:

1.     Adjective of quality: shows the kind or quality of a person or things. He is an honest man. The foolish crow tried to sing.

2.     Adjective of quantity: shows how much of thing is meant. I ate some rice. He showed much patience. He has little intelligence.

3.     Adjectives of number: shows how many persons or things are meant, or in what order a person or things stands. The hand has five fingers. There are no pictures in this book.

Numeral objectives are 3 kinds:-

i.                   Definite: Ordinals – one, two, three. Cardinals – First, second, third.

ii.                 Indefinite: all, no, many, few, some, any, certain, several, sundry.

iii.              Distributive: each, every, either, neither.

4.     Demonstrative adjective: Point out which person or thing is meant. This, that, these, those. That boy is industrious. I hate such things.

5.     Interrogative adjective: what, which, whose. Which way we shall go? What manner of man is he?

6.     Emphasizing adjective: own and very are used as emphasizing adjective. I saw it with my own eyes. This is the very thing I want.

7.     Exclamatory adjective: what genius! What an idea! What a blessing!