1. ADJECTIVES
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2. What is
Adjective?
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3. ADJECTIVES
1. Adjectives are words used to describe
nouns.
2. Adjectives are usually used before Noun.
3. Adjectives give more information about a
noun.
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4. ADJECTIVES
• We can easily find out the Adjective in a
Sentence by asking the following questions
together with the Noun in the Sentence:
1. What kind of?
2. How many? Or How much?
3. Which?
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5. ADJECTIVES
Let us look at the following Sentences:
(a) The old car is on the road.
(Noun = car)
What kind of car? Old
(Old = Adjective)
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6. ADJECTIVES
(b) Two boys came here.
(Noun = boys)
How many boys? Two
(Two = Adjective)
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7. ADJECTIVES
(c) That man is walking.
(Noun = man)
Which man? That
(That = Adjective)
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8. KINDS OF ADJECTIVES
1. Adjective of Quality or Descriptive Adjective which
shows:
What kind?
Examples:
i) Clever boy
ii) Green grass - colour
iii) Small box - size
iv) Hot day
v) Round eraser - shape
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9. KINDS OF ADJECTIVES
2. Adjective of Quantity which tells how many
or how much.
It may be:
Definite Indefinite
One boy Some water
Three pens Many pencils
Second girl All men
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10. KINDS OF ADJECTIVES
3. Possessive Adjective which shows
possession (ownership).
Examples:
i) My house
ii) Her books
iii) Your father
iv) Our school
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11. KINDS OF ADJECTIVES
4.Demonstrative Adjective which points out
Examples:
i) This book
ii) That house
iii) These girls
iv) Those boys
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