Uses and Kinds of Adjective

Adjectives

Adjectives are words that describes, limit or modify nouns and pronouns. It adds life and color to your sentences. It answers any of the following questions regarding the particular noun or pronoun that it describes:

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

 

Let's look at the following nouns:

Winnie Food Building Friday Song Dogs

 

Adjectives give a clearer picture about the nouns and pronouns that they describe.

 

Let's place adjective to our nouns and pronouns:

 

Lovely Winnie That food Tallest building Quite Friday Familiar song Colorful dogs

 

Here are more examples of how adjectives describe nouns:


What kind?

How many?

How much?

Which one?

Clear sky

ten apples

enough water

those pants

Lovely road

three roads

inadequate air

this road

Old house

five houses

ample room

that house



There are three uses of Adjectives:

1.  A noun modifier is usually placed directly before the noun it describes.

*   He is an intelligent man.

2.  A predicate adjective follows a linking verb and modifies the subject.

*   She is happy.

*   I fell terrible.

 

3.  An article or noun marker is another name for these adjectives- a, an, and the.


"The" is used with a specific noun. It is used when the noun it modifier refer to a definite object, person, or place.


"An" is indefinite articles and is used with a nonspecific noun that begins with a vowel or an unpronounced h.

"A" is used to modify singular nonspecific nouns that begin with a consonant.

 

Kinds of Adjectives

1.     Indefinite adjective- some, many, much, several, few, few, a great deal of, little

A.  With countable nouns- I have (many, several, few) books at home.

B.  With non-countable nouns- I have (much, a great deal of, little) information on history.

C.   With both plural countable and non-countable nouns- he has (some, a lot of, enough) money.


D.  The infinitive adjectives much, many, little, and few may be modified by too and very. You are making too much noise.

 Numerals - one, two, three (cardinals), First, second (ordinals)

*   He gave me three red roses.

*   She is the third contestant.


3.   Descriptive- new, all, blue, charming

*   The charming woman is my mother.

* The black car belongs to my husband.

4.   Proper- proper nouns modifying another noun

*   Philippine flag

*   Persian bag

*   Philippine peso

5.   Nouns that modify nouns

*   Oak tree

*   Paper bag

*   Paper doll


6.   Phrase and clauses that modify nouns.

*   The girl watching television is Charlene, my sister.


7.    A clause modifying a noun is usually introduced by a relative pronoun (that, which, who, whom, whose, where)


The man who is driving the car is my husband. 

The teacher whom I admire received an award.

 

Pronouns as Adjectives

1. Possessive adjectives- The possessive forms of personal pronouns are often used with nouns in much the same way as the possessive forms of nouns. Although by structure the words are called pronouns, by virtue of their function.

*   This is your book.

 

2.  Demonstrative adjectives

Demonstrative pronouns point out definite persons, places, or thing. Indefinite pronouns do not point our particular places, persons, or things.

The following words in italics are demonstrative pronouns in structure functioning as demonstrative adjectives.

*   This radio set

*   That calendar

*   These books

*   Those trees


3.  Indefinite adjectives are also called indefinite pronouns.

*   Each girl

*   All students


*   Any candidate


4.  Interrogative adjectives are also called interrogative pronouns.

*   Whose house is that?

*Which seat do you prefer?


Adjectives can also be found in the predicate. Some of these adjectives in the predicate describe nouns located also in the predicate while others describe nouns located in the subject. The latter are called predicate adjectives.


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