An Adjective
An Adjective :
Read the following paragraph.
The little boy said, ‘I love to go to the beach on sunny days. The blue sea with its high waves, the light foam on top, the sandy shore with the crowded stalls and the happy people who come to the beach make the whole place seem bright and cheerful.’
All the words that are in bold are adjectives. As you can see, an adjective gives you some more information about a noun. For example, the adjective ‘little’ gives us more information about the noun ‘boy’.
In other words, an adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying or quantifying words. An adjective usually precedes the noun or the pronoun which it modifies.
An adjective can be placed before or after the noun.
For examples :
The green alien walked out of the spaceship.
The adjective ‘green’ describes the alien.
The shiny spaceship landed in my yard.
The adjective shiny describes the spaceship.
An alien with big eyes walked out of the ship.
The adjective big describes the eyes.
It waved its tiny hand in the air.
The adjective tiny describes the tiny.
The alien said, ‘Earth is such a beautiful planet.’
The adjective beautiful describes the planet.
A brown rabbit hopped into the yard and scared the alien.
The adjective brown describes the rabbit.
The frightened alien ran back into its spaceship and blasted off.
The adjective frightened describes the alien.
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- Kinds of Adjectives
- Adjectives of Quality
- Adjectives of Quantity
- Adjectives of Number
- Demonstrative Adjectives
- Possessive Adjectives
- Interrogative Adjective
- Emphasising Adjective
- Formation of Adjectives
- Degrees of Comparison
- Positive Degree of Comparison
- Superlative Degree of Comparison
- Comparative Degree of Comparison
- The Adjective
- An Adjective
- Attribute Position of Adjective
- Predicative Position of Adjective
- Kinds of Adjectives
- Proper Adjectives
- Descriptive Adjectives
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Quantitative Adjectives ( Adjectives of Quantity )
- Qualitative Adjectives ( Adjectives of Quality )
- Numeral Adjectives ( Adjectives of Number )
- Definite Numeral Adjectives
- Indefinite Numeral Adjectives
- Demonstrative Adjectives ( Demonstrative Adjective )
- Definite Demonstrative Adjectives
- Definite Demonstratives
- Indefinite Demonstrative Adjectives
- Indefinite Demonstratives
- Distributive Adjectives
- Interrogative Adjectives
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Exclamatory Adjectives
- Possessive Adjectives
- Possessive Determiners
- First Person Possessive Adjectives
- Second Person Possessive Adjectives
- Third Person Possessive Adjectives
- Emphasizing Adjectives
- Coordinate Adjectives
- Paired Adjectives
- Cumulative Adjectives
- Non-Coordinate Adjectives
- Two Uses of Adjectives
- Attributive Use of Adjectives
- Predicative Use of Adjectives
- The Degrees of Comparison
- Comparison of Adjectives
- Latin Comparatives of Adjectives
- Irregular Comparisons of Adjectives
- Formation of Comparatives and Superlatives
- Formation of Comparative and Superlative
- Uses of Quantitative Adjectives
- Uses of Numeral Adjectives
- Definite Numeral Quantities
- Uses of Demonstrative Adjectives
- Uses of Distributive Phrases
- Uses of Distributive Adjectives
- Example Sentences with suitable Adjectives
- Uses of Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives
- Uses of Positive Degree of Comparison of Adjectives
- Uses of Comparative Degree of Comparison of Adjectives
- Uses of Superlative Degree of Comparison of Adjectives
- Use of The Comparative Degree
- OTHER after Positives and Comparatives
- Preferables in English Grammar
- Double Comparatives
- Double Superlatives
- Comparatives which have lost their force
- Latin Comparatives
- English Comparatives
- Adjectives used as Nouns
- Adjectives in Pairs
- Adjectives preceded by THE
- Position of Adjectives
- Adjectives Used Attributively
- Adjectives Used Predicatively
- The Adjective Clause
An Adjective
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