Learn Adjectives

Adjectives: Adjectives are words that describe nouns, like colors, shapes, sizes, and appearances.

In English, there is a single form for each adjective. Unlike in some languages, English adjectives do not have different forms according to gender, number, or location in the sentence.

English adjectives always come in front of the nouns they modify.

In the following examples, the adjectives are in bold.

He was wearing a blue shirt.

Here ‘blue’ is an adjective as it is describing the noun ‘shirt’ by answering the question ‘what kind of shirt?’

There are seven rooms in the house.

Here ‘Seven’ is also an adjective as it’s telling the quantity/the number of the noun ‘rooms’, answering the question ‘how many rooms?’.

If you are asked questions with which, whose, what kind, or how many, you need an adjective to be able to answer.

There are different types of adjectives in the English language:

• Numeric: six, one hundred and one
• Quantitative: more, all, some, half, more than enough
• Qualitative: color, size, smell etc.
• Possessive: my, his, their, your
• Interrogative: which, whose, what
• Demonstrative: this, that, those, these

Note: - The articles a, an, and the and the possessives my, our, your, and there are also adjectives.

Opinion: - Adjectives can be used to give your opinion about something.

Good, pretty, right, wrong, funny, light, happy, sad, full, soft, hard etc.

For example:

He was a good boy.

Size: - Adjectives can be used to describe size.

Big, small, little, long, tall, short, same as, etc.

For example:

• "The big boy." or "The small girl".

Age

Adjectives can be used to describe age.

For example:

• "He was an old man." or "She was an old woman."

Shape

Adjectives can be used to describe shape.

Round, circular, triangular, rectangular, square, oval, etc.

For example:

• "It was a round box." or "They were square boxes."

Color

Adjectives can be used to describe color.

Blue, red, green, brown, yellow, black, white, etc.

For example:

• "The blue bag." or "The blue bags".

Origin

Adjectives can be used to describe origin.

For example:-

• "It was a Indian flag." or "They were Indian flags."

Material

Adjectives can be used to identify the material something is made of.

• "A wooden cupboard." or "Wooden cupboards."

! Note - In English we often use a noun as an adjective. For example: glass - a glass vase / metal - a metal tray etc.

Distance

Adjectives can be used to describe distance.

Long, short, far, around, start, high, low, etc.

For example:

• "She went for a long walk." or "She went for lots of long walks."

Temperature

Adjectives can be used to describe temperature.

Cold, warm, hot, cool, etc.

For example:

• "The day was hot." or "The days were hot."

Time

Adjectives can be used to describe time.

Late, early, bed, nap, dinner, lunch, day, morning, night, etc.

For example:

• "She had an early start."

Purpose

Adjectives can be used to describe purpose. These adjectives often end with "-ing".

For example:

• "She gave them a sleeping bag." or "She gave them sleeping bags."

! Note - In each case the adjective stays the same, whether it is describing a masculine, feminine, singular or plural noun.

When using more than one adjective to modify a noun, the adjectives may be separated by a conjunction (and) or by commas (,).

For example:

• "Her hair was long and blonde." or "She had long, blonde hair.

! Note - Adjectives that go immediately before the noun are called attributive adjectives.

Adjectives can also be used after some verbs. They do not describe the verb, adverbs do that. Adjectives after a verb describe the subject of the verb (usually a noun or pronoun). They are called predicative adjectives.

For example:

"Hemraj looks tired." The subject (in this case Hemraj) is being described as tired not the verb to look.
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