In linguistics, an 'adjective' is a 'describing' word; the main syntactic role of which 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, although linguists today distinguish adjectives from words such as determiners that formerly were considered to be adjectives. Just look on the slide..
4. Kinds of adjective
Descriptive Adjectives Limiting Adjectives
is adjective that describe
condition of person or
thing.
is adjective that limits
person or thing.
10. Proper Adjectives
Proper adjectives are derived from proper noun and
must always be capitalized. Proper adjectives are often
used to show the origin of something.
examples :
French tires are excellent.
Italian food is the best!
Jack prefers Canadian maple syrup.
11. Quantitative Adjective
Example:
Much
Little
Some
All
Etc
•He has a little knowledge.
•I ate some rice.
•He spent all his money.
Adjective which show the quantity of a thing is called the Adjective of
Quantity.
12. Interrogative adjectives are used to ask question. Interrogative
adjectives include which and what
Examples:
Which kind of car do you drive?
What time should I come?
What type of ice cream do you like?
13. Possessive adjectives are also known as Pronominal adjectives as
discussed above. Possessive adjectives are created from pronouns and
include my, your, his, her, its, our, and their.
Examples :
- That's my house.
- Our vacation was a lot of fun.
- He delivered their mail every day.
14. Predicate adjectives are placed at the end of a sentence
or clause to describe the noun at the beginning of a
sentence. Predicate adjectives are often used with the
verb 'to be'.
Examples:
His job is stressful.
The vacation was enjoyable.
It probably isn't very easy.
15. Distributive adjectives are normally used with singular
nouns. They include “each”, “every”, “either”, and “neither” and
are used to refer to members of a group as individuals or
Distributive adjectives are adjectives that indicate one of the
total amount of an existing object, or to show the spread of an
object. The words used for distributive adjectives: each (each,
each, respectively), every (each, each), either (between, one),
and Neither (not between, not both).
Examples :
-Each component can be replaced separately if it breaks.
- She knows every student in the school.
- There are shops at either end of the street.
- I’ve lived in New York and Chicago, but don’t like either city
very much.
- Neither answer is correct.