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# question please tell me the diffetent kinds of adjectives?
There are 7 different types of adjectives:
1. Descriptive adjectives are used to describe nouns and pronouns.
Words like beautiful, silly, tall, annoying, loud and nice are all descriptive adjectives. These adjectives add information and qualities to the words they’re modifying.
“The flowers have a smell” is just stating a fact, and it has no adjectives to describe what the flowers or their smell are like.
“The beautiful flowers have a nice smell” gives us a lot more information, with two descriptive adjectives.
2. Quantitative adjectives describe the quantity of something.
In other words, they answer the question “how much?” or “how many?” Numbers like one and thirty are this type of adjective. So are more general words like many, half and a lot.
“How many children do you have?” “I only have one daughter.”
“Do you plan on having more kids?” “Oh yes, I want many children!”
“I can’t believe I ate the whole cake!”
3. A demonstrative adjective describes “which” noun or pronoun you’re referring to. These adjectives include the words:
This — Used to refer to a singular noun close to you. That — Used to refer to a singular noun far from you. These — Used to refer to a plural noun close to you. Those — Used to refer to a plural noun far from you.
“Which bicycle is yours?” “This bicycle is mine, and that one used to be mine until I sold it.”
4. Possessive adjectives show possession. They describe to whom a thing belongs. Some of the most common possessive adjectives include: My — Belonging to me His — Belonging to him Her — Belonging to her Their — Belonging to them Your — Belonging to you Our — Belonging to us
All these adjectives, except the word his, can only be used before a noun. You can’t just say “That’s my,” you have to say “That’s my pen.” When you want to leave off the noun or pronoun being modified, use these possessive adjectives instead:
Mine, His, Hers, Theirs, Yours, Ours
For example, even though saying “That’s my” is incorrect, saying “That’s mine” is perfectly fine.
“Whose dog is that?” “He’s mine. That’s mydog.”
5. Interrogative adjectives interrogate, meaning that they ask a question. These adjectives are always followed by a noun or a pronoun, and are used to form questions. The interrogative adjectives are:
Which — Asks to make a choice between options What — Asks to make a choice (in general). Whose — Asks who something belongs to.
Other question words, like “who” or “how,” aren’t adjectives since they don’t modify nouns. For example, you can say “whose coat is this?” but you can’t say “who coat?”
Which, what and whose are only considered adjectives if they’re immediately followed by a noun. The word which is an adjective in this sentence: “Which color is your favorite?” But not in this one: “Which is your favorite color?” “Which song will you play on your wedding day?”
“What pet do you want to get?”
“Whose child is this?”
6. Distributive adjectives describe specific members out of a group. These adjectives are used to single out one or more individual items or people. Some of the most common distributive adjectives include:
Each — Every single one of a group (used to speak about group members individually). Every — Every single one of a group (used to make generalizations). Either — One between a choice of two. Neither or Any — Not one or the other between a choice of two.
These adjectives are always followed by the noun or pronoun they’re modifying.
“Every rose has its thorn.”
“Which of these two songs do you like?” “I don’t like either song.”
7. Articles: There are only three articles in the English language: a, an and the.
A — A singular, general item. An — A singular, general item. Use this before words that start with a vowel.
