Kinds of adjectives

Degrees of Comparison
Adjectives forming
suffixes
What is an Adjective?
It describes a nouns and pronouns.
She wore a beautiful dress.
Examples:
Louis is an adorable baby.
Lindas hair is gorgeous.
Examples:
Its a big table (size)
Its a round table. (shape)
Its an English table. (origin)
Its an old table. (age)
There are four questions an adjective will answer:
Which one?
The brown dog has been barking.
How many?
Three dogs have been barking
How much?
With three dogs. There a little
space in the car.
There are four questions an adjective will answer:
What kind?
A wild dog was barking.
Qualitative Adjectives
Quantitative Adjectives
Demonstrative Adjectives
Interrogative Adjectives
Possessive Adjectives
Descriptive/Qualitative Adjective
Descriptive / qualitative adjectives convey the shape, color, size, etc of nouns.
1. The thick book belongs to Harry.
Examples:
2. The yellow ribbon is used to decorate the gift box.
Quantitative Adjectives
Quantitative Adjectives convey the amount or number.
Examples:
1. She has many kittens at her house.
2. The teacher has given too much homework to the students.
Demonstrative Adjectives
Demonstrative adjectives single out the nouns that they are used with.
1. That car belongs to Lim.
2. These questions are really hard to answer.
Examples:
Interrogative Adjectives
Interrogative adjectives ask questions.
1. What is your ambition?
2. Who is your favorite actress?
Examples:
Possessive Adjectives
Possessive adjectives show possession.
Examples:
2. Fatima forgives her friend.
1. The cat is wagging its tail
Positive Degree
Comparative Degree
Superlative Degree
Examples:

Positive Degree

Comparative Degree

Superlative Degree

Tall

Taller

Tallest

Kind

Kinder

Kindest
The first degree of comparison is the Positive degree.
- It refers to the adjective in its simple form , merely showing the
existence of the quality.
Examples:
This is a large box.
Rony is a smart boy.
It refers to a higher degree of adjectives as compared to the positive.
Examples:
This is a larger box than the first one.
Jimmy is smarter than Rony.
It refers to the highest degree of adjective and is used when more than two
things or persons are compared
Examples:
This is the largest box of all boxes.
Kevin is the smartest of all the boys.
If the positive ends in two consonants, or in one consonant, 'er' and 'est' are
respectively added to the positive in forming comparative and superlative
Positive Comparative Superlative
Young Younger Youngest
Deep Deeper Deepest
If the positive ends in one consonant preceded by a short vowel, that
consonant is doubled before 'er' and 'est' are added.
Positive Comparative Superlative
Flat Flatter Flattest
Glad Gladder Gladdest
When the positive ends in 'e', only 'r' and 'st' [not 'er', 'est'] are added
Positive Comparative Superlative
Brave Braver Bravest
Large Larger Largest
Adjectives of three or more syllables form their comparative and superlative
by putting 'more' and 'most' before the positive.
Positive Comparative Superlative
Expensive More expensive Most expensive
Difficult More difficult Most difficult
Example:
Example:
Eat - Eaten - Eating
Eat is the root word/base word.
Eaten Eating = SUFFIXES
Suffixes modify the root words to which they are added.
Example:
Eat - verb/action of taking in food.
Eater - noun/person who eats.
Suffix er modifies the root word eat from a verb to a noun.
We use suffixes to form plurals of nouns.
SUFFIX
-s
-es
-ies
-en
Example:
Sandwich Sandwiches
Daisy Daisies
Ox Oxen
We use suffixes to change the tense of a verb.
Suffix Example
-s Paint paints
-es Teach teaches
-d Advise advised
-ed Paint painted
-t Bend bent
-ing Paint - painting
Position of adjectives

Adjectives usually go before the nouns they modify.

Example:
She is a nice girl.
He is an intelligent boy.
When two or more adjectives come before a noun, they are
usually separated by commas.
Example:
A large, round table
A short, fair, pretty girl
When the last two are adjectives of color, they are usually
separated by and.
Position of adjectives
A black and white cow.
Example:
Red and blue socks.
When two or more adjectives come in the predicative position, we use
and between the last two.
It was hot and sultry.
Example:
The clouds looked white and fluffy.
Sometimes we put an adjective after the noun for the sake of emphasis.
Example:
There lived an old man strong and wicked.
A series of adjectives consists of two or more adjectives in a row. When
writing a series of adjectives, it is important to place a comma after
each one.
Example:
Aaron adored his soft, fluffy, yellow kitten.
When a sentence has a series of adjectives, the adjectives can be mixed
up and the sentence will still make sense.
Aaron adored his yellow, fluffy, soft kitten.
Example:
The categories in the following table can be described as follows:
Determiners articles and other limiters. See Determiners
Observation post determiners and limiter adjectives (e.g., a real hero, a
perfect idiot) and adjectives subject to subjective measure (e.g., beautiful,
interesting)
Size and Shape adjectives subject to objective measure (e.g., wealthy,
large, round)
Age adjectives denoting age (e.g., young, old, new, ancient)
Color adjectives denoting color (e.g., red, black, pale)
Origin denominal adjectives denoting source of noun (e.g., French,
American, Canadian)
Material denominal adjectives denoting what something is made of
(e.g., woolen, metallic, wooden)
Qualifier final limiter, often regarded as part of the noun (e.g., rocking
chair, hunting cabin, passenger car, book cover)