OUTLINE

Introduction

Body

I – Meaning of Adjectives

II – Kinds of Adjectives

A. Descriptive

B. Limiting

C. Proper

D. Numerical

E. Indefinite

F. Demonstration

G. Quantitative

H. Possessive

I. Interrogative

III – Degrees of Comparison of the Adjectives

A. Positive

B. Comparative

C. Superlative

IV - Form of Adjectives

A. Attributive

B. Predicative

C. Absolute

D. Nominal

Conclusion
Introduction

Adjective is the very helpful in our daily English life. It describes almost everything even nothing.

As we wake up in the early morning, we describe our beautiful surroundings. As we eat our breakfast, we

are full as we taste the food. In our work, we describe our experience. As we

In grammar, an adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to qualify a noun or noun phrase,

giving more information about the object signified. Adjectives are one of the traditional eight English

parts of speech, though linguists today distinguish adjectives from words such as determiners that were

formerly considered to be adjectives. In this paragraph, "main", "more", and "traditional" are adjectives.

Most but not all languages have adjectives. Those that do not typically use words of another part of

speech, often verbs, to serve the same semantic function; for example, such a language might have a verb

that means "to be big", and would use a construction analogous to "big-being house" to express what

English expresses as "big house". Even in languages that do have adjectives, one language's adjective

might not be another's; for example, while English uses "to be hungry" (hungry being an adjective),

French and Spanish use "avoir faim" and "tener hambre" respectively (literally "to have hunger", hunger

being a noun).

Adjectives form an open class of words in most languages that have them; that is, it is relatively

common for new adjectives to be formed via such processes as derivation.

This term paper will help you describes things better according to its kinds. It contains factual

ideas which explain will the concept of adjectives and how it functions.
Statement of the Problem

Most of the students usually use adjective in informal manner. Sometimes,

misarrange the use of manner of adjectives in the sentence. As a writer, we must be

knowledgeable enough to know and determine all the parts of speech. The most common are the

nouns and pronouns which we commonly use these two as our subject in a sentence. To add up

some variations with our subject, we use adjectives and adverbs that best describes or modify our

subject and its corresponding verb.

However, one writing mistake that seems to appear all too frequently is the misuse of

adjectives and adverbs. Every writer should know how to differentiate these two as a part of

speech. The common use of adjective ad adverbs is that they serve to modify a word. Now, what

are these words? What kind of words? Let’s face back. Some statements require adverbs; others

will require adjectives. It’s important to distinguish when to use one or the other, lest risk finding

yourself committing the error.

This term paper will help you understand the function and uses of adjectives.

Significance of the Study

This study entitled Adjectives: functions and uses is important to the following:

Students. This term paper helps them in their studying English Subject focusing on Adjectives.

This also enhances their English vocabulary by reading bulk of adjectives listed in this paper.

Teachers. The fact is, not all teachers are good in constructing English sentence, this is

according to English Research Institute of the Philippine. The easiest way in constructing
English is to know carefully adjectives that fit to the noun being describe. This paper contains

helpful steps on how to use adjectives according to manner which helps the teachers to review

their knowledge on how to use adjectives.

Writers/Reuters. Our world today is really full of good and bad news. However, it doesn’t

matter. What matter most is on how you are going to send the news to the readers, listeners or

viewers. Sometimes we have faked by news like for example the alarm of having tsunami in

Surigao del Sur last 2008 which an information from a person who interpret the report. This term

paper will help them learn much about how to use adjective properly.
 Related Literature

Meaning of Adjectives

According to Murray (2007), an adjective modifies a noun or pronoun either by signifying its limit,

by pointing its location, by indicating its ownership, by asking for it, or by describing it. This is the word

that decorates every name of a person, place or thing to make it pretty or ugly. An adjective modifies a

noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words. An adjective usually precedes the

noun or the pronoun which it modifies.

Adjective is the part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or

specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous,

-er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase. Any of the words

belonging to this part of speech, such as white in the phrase a white house.

(http://www.answers.com/topic/adjective)

Kinds of Adjectives

The first kind of adjective is the descriptive which tells “what kind”. It gives the quality, size,

shape and color of the noun. If some or all these adjectives are given in a sentence they should follow this

order: limiting adjective, quality, size, shape, color, and participle. Example, “Six tiny round and white

objects have been seen in that box.” Another example, “Tina gave her friend a durable, small-sized, red t-

shirt.”

Second kind of adjective is the limiting that tells “which one, how many, how much.” The article

a, an, the, indefinite pronouns, and some noun determiners are limiting adjectives. Example is that “the

girl is looking at some ants crawling on the bread.”

Fourth one is the proper adjective that comes from a proper name; hence it begins with a capital

letter. For instance, “German leather is expensive.” Next, is the numerical adjective, it is either cardinal
or ordinal. The cardinal is used in counting and in stating quantities. While the other is used in indicating

a place, rank or position in a series.

Subsequently, it is followed by the indefinite adjective it is similar to indefinite pronoun except

that it modifies a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase, that acts as modifier of a noun. Examples of this are the

several, both, few, and some, etc. After that is the demonstrative adjective used to modify a noun. It

points to a noun or pronoun and in effect also limits it. Then it is followed by the quantitative adjective

that indicates how much of something is spoken about.

The second to the last, is the indefinite adjective "many" modifies the noun "people" and the noun

phrase "many people" is the subject of the sentence. Finally, the possessive adjective ("my," "your," "his,"

"her," "its," "our," "their") is similar or identical to a possessive pronoun; however, it is used as an

adjective and modifies a noun or a noun phrase.

Comparison of Adjectives

Adjectives have three degrees of comparison. The positive describes a noun or pronoun without

comparing it to anyone or anything. Example, Superman is tough. Next is the comparative that compares

two persons, places, things or ideas. Here is the example, “Tarzan is tougher than superman. The last one

is the superlative it also compares three or more persons, places, things or ideas. The illustration is “But

Spiderman is the toughest of all.”

Form of Adjectives

A given occurrence of an adjective can generally be classified into one of four kinds of uses:

Attributive adjectives are part of the noun phrase headed by the noun they modify; for example, happy is

an attributive adjective in "happy people". In some languages, attributive adjectives precede their nouns;
in others, they follow their nouns; and in yet others, it depends on the adjective, or on the exact

relationship of the adjective to the noun. In English, attributive adjectives usually precede their nouns in

simple phrases, but often follow their nouns when the adjective is modified or qualified by a phrase acting

as an adverb. For example: "I saw three happy kids", and "I saw three kids happy enough to jump up and

down with glee."

Predicative adjectives are linked via a copula or other linking mechanism to the noun or pronoun

they modify; for example, happy is a predicate adjective in "they are happy" and in "that made me

happy."

Absolute adjectives do not belong to a larger construction (aside from a larger adjective phrase),

and typically modify either the subject of a sentence or whatever noun or pronoun they are closest to; for

example, happy is an absolute adjective in "The boy, happy with his lollipop, did not look where he was

going."

Nominal adjectives act almost as nouns. One way this can happen is if a noun is elided and an

attributive adjective is left behind. In the sentence, "I read two books to them; he preferred the sad book,

but she preferred the happy", happy is a nominal adjective, short for "happy one" or "happy book".

Another way this can happen is in phrases like "out with the old, in with the new", where "the old" means,

"that which is old" or "all that is old", and similarly with "the new". In such cases, the adjective functions

either as a mass noun (as in the preceding example) or as a plural count noun, as in "The meek shall

inherit the Earth", where "the meek" means "those who are meek" or "all who are meek.”

(http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/adjectve.html)
Conclusion

An adjective is in the superlative form when it expresses a comparison between one and a

number of individuals taken separately; "John is the richest man in Boston." Adjectives

expressive of properties or circumstances which cannot be increased have only the positive form;

a circular road; the chief end; an extreme measure. Adjectives are compared in two ways,

either by adding er to the positivse to form the comparative and est to the positive to form the

superlative, or by prefixing more to the positive for the comparative and most to the positive for

the superlative; handsome, handsomer, handsomest or handsome, more handsome, most

handsome.Adjectives of two or more syllables are generally compared by prefixing more and

most. Many adjectives are irregular in comparison; bad, worse, worst or good, better, best..
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Murray, A, V. (2007). High School Subjects for Self-Study.

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http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/adjectve.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective

http://www.answers.com/topic/adjective