The Types of Adjectives | English By Zahid Sir
A word which is used to describe a noun or a pronoun is known as an adjective.
Rahul is a good boy.
Rahul= noun
Boy= noun
Good= adjective
Let’s understand the types of adjectives
1. Descriptive adjective/qualitative adjective/attributive adjective: It is used to refer to the quality of a noun or a pronoun.
For example
Good, bad, graceful, beautiful, etc.
That flower is beautiful.
2. Demonstrative adjective: It refers to a word which is used to indicate a person or a thing. There must be a noun after a demonstrative adjective.
For example
This, that, these, those
This book is good.
This= adjective
Book= noun
This is a good book.
This= pronoun
3. Distributive adjective: A word which refers to each individual separately rather than collectively. There must be an existence of a noun after any of the words of distributive adjective.
For example
Each, every, either, neither.
Each question carries two marks.
Every student is attentive.
There are two persons there. Neither person is active.
There are two shirts. I don’t like either shirt.
4. Possessive adjective: It refers to a word which modifies a noun by identifying the ownership or possession of something.
For example
His, her, its, my, your, our, their
This is his car.
His= adjective
5. Quantitative adjective: It is used to express an indefinite quantity and it answers the question of “how much” in an indefinite manner. It is mainly used with an uncountable noun.
For example
Much, little, some, sufficient, enough, etc.
He does not have much knowledge about this field.
There is a little oil in the bottle.
6. Numeral Adjective: It is also used to express a quantity in terms of number and it answers the question of “how many”. It is mainly used with countable nouns. There are two types of numeral adjectives. The first one is definite and the second one is indefinite.
(a) Definite Numeral Adjective: It refers to any definite number and it can further be classified into two parts. The first one is cardinal and the second one is ordinal.
(i) Cardinal: It refers to a general number and there should be a noun after a cardinal number.
For example
one, two, three, four, five, six, etc.
One person was sitting there.
(ii) Ordinal: ordinal number refers to the position and the rank.
For example
First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, etc.
The first student of this class is absent today.
(b) Indefinite Numeral Adjective: It refers to any indefinite number.
For example
Many, few, several, lots of, more, etc.
Many students were absent yesterday.
7. Interrogative adjective: It refers to a word which is used to ask a question. There must be a noun after any of the words of interrogative adjectives.
For example
What, Which, whose
Which book do you like?
Which= adjective
Book= noun
8. Adjective of comparison/ Degrees of comparison: It refers to those words which are used to compare between two things. Adjective of comparison also refers to those things or persons which can be better or worse than more than two things or persons.
There are three types of adjective of comparison and they are positive, comparative, and superlative.
For example
| Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Good | Better | Best |
| Bad | Worse | Worst |
| Beautiful | More beautiful | Most beautiful |
| Handsome | More handsome | Most handsome |
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I’m Mohammad Zahid Hussain, a Content Writer, Spoken English, IELTS and PTE Trainer. I’m also a Professional English-Hindi and Hindi-English Translator, Editor and Proofreader. I’m a graduate from Jamia Millia Islamia University, and I’m here to share my articles on a wide range of topics to help you enhance your insights into various things to provide you with factual information and creative analysis.
