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!
