Types of Adjectives and their examples
Grammar Adjectives
Definition
An adjective could be defined as those words which are used to modify or describe a noun or a pronoun.
Examples of some common adjectives:
- Kevin is an adorable baby.
- Lara’s hair is gorgeous.
- This glass is breakable.
- I met a homeless man in NY.
Types of adjectives
These are some of the common types of adjectives:
- Proper adjective
- Descriptive, qualitative, or attributive adjective
- Quantitative adjective
- Numeral adjective
- Demonstrative adjective
- Distributive adjective
- Interrogative adjective
- Possessive adjective
- Compound adjective
- Indefinite adjectives
- Coordinate adjectives
- Predicate adjectives
Examples of different types of adjectives are:
- I love Chinese food. (Proper)
- Look at the blue sea. (Descriptive)
- All students are present today. (Quantitative)
- I saw a pretty girl. (Attributive)
- This book is interesting. (Demonstrative)
- Every student has attended the test. (Distributive)
- Whose bag is it? (Interrogative)
- Johnny is my pet cat. (Possessive)
- Bruno is a well-behaved dog. (Compound)
- The girl was pretty. (Predicative)
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