An adjective describes or modifies noun/s and pronoun/s in a sentence. It normally indicates quality, size, shape, duration, feelings, contents, and more about a noun or pronoun.
Adjectives usually provide relevant information about the nouns/pronouns they modify/describe by answering the questions: What kind? How many? Which one? How much? Adjectives enrich your writing by adding precision and originality to it.
For Example:
He is an obedient boy.
Aslam is a great poet.
Degrees of Adjective:
1. Positive Degree
It simply expresses a quality.
For Example:
She is a pretty girl.
Aslam is a brave boy.
2. Comparative Degree
It is used when we compare two persons or things.
For Example:
This garden is more beautiful than that.
He is taller than I.
3. Superlative Degree
It is used when we compare a person or a thing with all the persons or things of the same kind.
For Example:
She is the wisest girl in the class.
He is the tallest boy in the football team.
Kinds of Adjective:
1. Interrogative adjective:
These adjectives are used with noun to ask some question.
For Example:
In which class do you study?
Whose house is that?
What bring you here?
Which book is yours?
2. Descriptive adjective:
A descriptive adjective is a word which describes nouns and pronouns. Most of the adjectives belong to this type. These adjectives provide information and attribute to the nouns/pronouns they modify or describe. Descriptive adjectives are also called qualitative adjectives. Participles are also included in this type of adjective when they modify a noun.
Examples:
I have a fast car. (The word ‘fast’ is describing an attribute of the car)
I am hungry. (The word ‘hungry’ is providing information about the subject)
The hungry cats are crying.
I saw a flying kite.
3. Proper Adjective:
Proper adjectives are the adjective form of proper nouns. When proper nouns modify or describe other nouns/pronouns, they become proper adjectives. ‘Proper’ means ‘specific’ rather than ‘formal’ or ‘polite.’
A proper adjective allows us to summarize a concept in just one word. Instead of writing/saying ‘a food cooked in Chinese recipe’ you can write/say ‘Chinese food’.
Proper adjectives are usually capitalized as proper nouns are.
For Example:
American cars are very strong.
Chinese people are hard workers.
I love KFC chicken.
Marxist philosophers despise capitalism.
4. Demonstrative Adjective:
A demonstrative adjective directly refers to something or someone. Demonstrative adjectives include the words: this, that, these, those. A demonstrative pronoun works alone and does not precede a noun, but a demonstrative adjective always comes before the word it modifies.
Examples:
That building is so gorgeously decorated. (‘That’ refers to a singular noun far from the speaker)
This car is mine. (‘This’ refers to a singular noun close to the speaker)
These cats are cute. (‘These’ refers to a plural noun close to the speaker)
Those flowers are heavenly. (‘Those’ refers to a plural noun far from the speaker)
5. Adjective of quality:
These adjectives show the kind, quality or state of person, place or thing.
For Example:
Fresh fruit