Cumulative Adjectives

Cumulative Adjectives :



English language is a wonderful language for using in writing or in conversation. We need tools in the language to make our thoughts and intention very clear and distinctive. The listener has to understand what we say without any ambiguity. Such tools are there in English Language. That may be the reason for many people around the world to come forward to learn this business language.

In this page we will learn what cumulative adjectives means and how they are used in our regular writing and conversation of our day to day lives. These adjectives are used only to describe the nouns.

My mother made a hot, home-made orange milk-shake today.

In this sentence, the write uses three adjectives - hot, home-made and orange to describe the milk-shake. Did you notice that there is a comma after the adjective HOT, but not after the adjective HOME-MADE. The adjectives might be either cumulative or coordinate and the way that commas are used depends on the type of adjectives the writer uses. When these adjectives are used to modify the noun, the adjectives are used in a particular order.

So, one cannot reverse the order of these adjectives.

The unmanned police car was there at the corner of this street.

In the above sentence, the adjectives UNMANNED and POLICE are used to modify the noun CAR. In the above sentence, we can not change the order of the adjectives.

The police unmanned car was there at the corner of this street. (This is not the correct way of using the adjectives in this sentence.)

We went around the city in an old Fiat car.

In the above sentence also, the adjectives OLD and FIAT are used to modify the noun CAR. In the above sentence, we can not change the order of the adjectives.

We went around the city in a Fiat old car. (This is not the correct way of using the adjectives in this sentence.)

In the case of Coordinate adjectives, there are also two adjectives. Here also, there are two adjectives. In the case Coordinate adjectives, the adjectives can be separated by a comma and the order of the adjectives can be changes to convey the same meaning. But, here, the comma is not required between the two adjectives and the order of the adjectives also could not be changed to convey the same meaning.

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7. Descriptive Adjectives
   
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13. Demonstrative Adjectives ( Demonstrative Adjective )
    
14. Definite Demonstrative Adjectives
    
15. Definite Demonstratives
    
16. Indefinite Demonstrative Adjectives
    
17. Indefinite Demonstratives
    
18. Distributive Adjectives
    
19. Interrogative Adjectives
    
20. Exclamatory Adjectives
    
21. Possessive Adjectives
    
22. Possessive Determiners
    
23. First Person Possessive Adjectives
    
24. Second Person Possessive Adjectives
    
25. Third Person Possessive Adjectives
    
26. Emphasizing Adjectives
    
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28. Paired Adjectives
    
29. Non-Coordinate Adjectives
    
30. Two Uses of Adjectives
    
31. Attributive Use of Adjectives
    
32. Predicative Use of Adjectives
    
33. The Degrees of Comparison
    
34. Comparison of Adjectives
    
35. Latin Comparatives of Adjectives
    
36. Irregular Comparisons of Adjectives
    
37. Formation of Comparatives and Superlatives
    
38. Formation of Comparative and Superlative
    
39. Uses of Quantitative Adjectives
    
40. Uses of Numeral Adjectives
    
41. Definite Numeral Quantities
    
42. Uses of Demonstrative Adjectives
    
43. Uses of Distributive Phrases
    
44. Uses of Distributive Adjectives
    
45. Example Sentences with suitable Adjectives
    
46. Uses of Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives
    
47. Uses of Positive Degree of Comparison of Adjectives
    
48. Uses of Comparative Degree of Comparison of Adjectives
    
49. Uses of Superlative Degree of Comparison of Adjectives
    
50. Use of The Comparative Degree
    
51. OTHER after Positives and Comparatives
    
52. Preferables in English Grammar
    
53. Double Comparatives
    
54. Double Superlatives
    
55. Comparatives which have lost their force
    
56. Latin Comparatives
    
57. English Comparatives
    
58. Adjectives used as Nouns
    
59. Adjectives in Pairs
    
60. Adjectives preceded by THE
    
61. Position of Adjectives
    
62. Adjectives Used Attributively
    
63. Adjectives Used Predicatively
    
64. The Adjective Clause
    

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