CLASSES VI - X GRAMMAR - ADJECTIVES

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ADJECTIVES

Adjectives are words that describe or modify other words. E.g., big, red, two etc

Order of Adjectives : What we think, size, age, shape, colour, material and origin. E.g. A wonderful old Italian clock

Types of Adjectives

1# Articles – There are three articles – a, an, the. The articles a, an – are used for non specific things and people and therefore, called indefinite article. E.g. I’d like to have a banana.

The article ‘the’ specifies therefore it is called definite article. E.g., Once upon time, there lived a boy in the jungle. The boy was very intelligent.

2# Possessive Adjective – My, Your, His, Her, Its, Our, Their etc.

3# Demonstrative Adjective – it is used to demonstrate or indicate specific people, thing or animal. These, those, that , and this

4# Coordinate Adjective – they are separated by a comma or by the word and, and appear one after the other to modify the same noun. Like Hot, sunny day …bold and beautiful girl.

5# Numbers Adjective – When numbers are used in a sentence, they are always adjective. If they answer the question ‘how many’ then you can ascertain that it is adjective. Like I have two pencils.

6# Interrrogative Adjective – which, what and whose is the three interrogative adjectives. Like What time should we leave?

7# Indefinite Adjective – They do not specify the quantity. Like many, several, few etc

8#Attributive Adjective – The list mentioned in the earlier order of adjective, all those aspects come under attributive adjective as they talk about specific traits, qualities, age, color, shape etc.

v  The difference between a determiner and adjective (article) – both modify a noun or a noun phrase, however, a determiner is placed before a noun and introduces the noun to the listener or reader while the adjectives modifies the noun.  Adjectives can be graded while determiners cannot be graded. Determiners are necessary while the adjectives are optional.

v  The difference between possessive adjective and possessive pronoun is that a possessive adjective is followed by a noun while possessive pronoun is used without a noun.

Degrees of Adjective

There are three degrees of adjectives. Positive, comparative and superlative. Comparative as the name suggests compares and can be identified with the word than in the sentence.

Like Ram is taller than Shyam.

In superlative degree, the comparison is there yet, it is mention that it is the best among all the compared thing or person and can be identified with the use of the.

Like Ram is the tallest among all the students of his class.

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