Learn all about the Adjective in English with definition, types, and helpful examples to enhance your English grammar skills. In this lesson, we will cover A to Z about Adjective in English grammar.

An adjective is a part of Parts of Speech in English Grammar. Learn the basic to advanced usage of adjectives in English with helpful examples. This lesson is going to help you to learn Adjective definition, their types, and degrees of adjectives in English. Learn this lesson entirely and enhance your English grammar.

The adjective is the 4th type of part of speech in English grammar. In this lesson, we are going to cover the definition, usage, 8 types of adjectives, and degrees of adjectives in English with helpful example sentences. We provided the easiest way to memorize the definition of adjectives and their types.

So, let’s get started our today’s lesson: Adjective and their types.

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What is an Adjective?

Take a look at the definition of an adjective:

• The adjective may be present single or multiple in a sentence that presents before a noun or a pronoun.
• Some articles like (a, an, the) are also called adjectives.

Kinds of Adjectives

Here, we will discuss these 8 types of adjectives in English with a great explanation:

• Descriptive Adjective
• Demonstrative Adjective
• Distributive adjective
• Interrogative Adjective
• Numeral Adjective
• Quantitative Adjective
• Proper Adjective
• Possessive Adjective

We will explain all types of adjectives in English with useful examples, so you’ll get the easiest way to memorize them.

Descriptive Adjective

• A descriptive adjective is used to illustrate or to give some description of the qualities of a noun or pronoun in a sentence.

Examples Sentences:

1. Harley Davidson bikes are stylish, fast, and expensive.

Here, the words stylish, fast, and expensive provide extra details of the bike, called descriptive adjectives.

2. Daniel bought a beautiful flower bouquet to present her gorgeous girlfriend.
3. She is very hungry.

Demonstrative Adjective

• The demonstrative adjective is used to demonstrate certain things, people, or animals.

Examples of Demonstrative Adjectives

• This, these, that, and those are demonstrative adjectives.

Examples Sentences:

• Those pictures were just awesome when we looked at the exhibition.

Here, the word “those” demonstrates the pictures and tells us that they are far away from their reach.

• Watching these kinds of movies is nothing but wasting time.
• These all are my office colleagues.

Distributive Adjective

• Distributive Adjectives are generally used to point to a particular group or individual and are used with singular nouns. It is used to modify nouns.

Examples of Distributive Adjective

• Each, every, neither, and either.

Examples Sentences:

• Each student has to take part in cultural events.

Here, the word “each” is used to distribute them into single ones.

Interrogative Adjective

• Interrogative adjectives are adjectives that tend to ask questions or to interrogate nouns or pronouns and modify them as well in a sentence.

Commonly Used Interrogative Adjective

• what, which, and whose.

Examples Sentences:

• Which bracelets do you like the most?

Here, “which” becomes an interrogative adjective because it asks to specify the noun “bracelet”.

• What location type are you looking to go to?

In this question statement, the noun “location” comes after the word “what,” which makes this word an adjective.

Numeral Adjective

• A numeral adjective determines the number of nouns present in any sentence.

There are three different kinds of numeral adjectives:

• Definite Numeral Adjectives
• Cardinal Numeral Adjective
• The Ordinal Numeral Adjective

Examples Sentences:

• Mark purchased five Bugatti cars from the showroom. (Cardinal)

Here, five tells us about the number of cars present.

• The second part of this movie is mind-blowing. (Ordinal)
• Some people can never understand French. (Quantitative)
• All the money you have can never buy happiness. (Indefinite)

Quantitative Adjective

• The quantitative adjective is used to explain the noun ( person or thing ) and its quantity in a sentence. Sometimes a numeral adjective is also called a quantitative adjective though it specifies the numbers.

Quantitative Adjective Words

• Little, more, much, few, all, large, small, tall, thirty, fifty, etc.

Examples Sentences:

• I want many chocolates to eat. (how much)

Here, “many” indicates the number of chocolates.

• He played the guitar for the very first time. (how many)
• There are 206 bones in a human skeleton. (how many)

Proper Adjective

• A proper adjective is an adjective that gives extra information related to a proper noun of a person, thing, animal, or object.

Example Sentences:

• Australian kangaroos are very healthy.

Here, the word “Australian” represents Australia, which is a proper noun.

• People called them Astronomers who study Astronomy.
• African people are very hard workers.

Possessive Adjective

• A possessive adjective is an adjective that shows the possessive nature of the noun of a person or place in any sentence.

• First-person: My, ours.
• Second-person: Yours.
• Third-person: His, hers, its, their, whose.

Example Sentences:

• My computer is working in better condition.

Here, “my” belongs to me shows some possession quality.

• Their black Mercedes Benz car looks more attractive than this one.
• Whose fathers are Ex-Army men?
• Is this band yours?

Degrees of Adjectives

• These degrees are only applicable to descriptive adjectives as it has a tendency to illustrate the qualities of nouns or pronouns.

There are three different kinds of degrees of adjectives in English grammar:

• Positive degree, Comparative degree, and Superlative degree.

Examples of Degrees of Adjectives:

• Hard, harder, hardest.
• Much, more, most.
• Good, better, best.
• Large, larger, largest.
• Beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful.
• Bad, worse, worst.
• Tall, taller, tallest.
• Thin, thinner, thinnest, etc.

What is a Positive Degree?

• A positive degree shows a correlation between the adjectives and the adverbs in a normal adjective form.

Examples:

• She looks pretty in this dress.
• He bought a phone which is thin in size.
• She ordered a large bucket of KFC for the treat.
• The climate is hot today.

What is a Comparative Degree?

• A comparative degree is a degree of adjective that applies to compare two things, either they are of the same origin or different.

Examples:

• Their goals are faster than our team’s.
• She is more beautiful than her elder sister.

What is a Superlative Degree?

• The superlative degree is an adjective that compares the quality or quantity of any person, place, thing or object among three or more to show either the least quality or highest degree.

Examples:

• The sedan is one of the bravest men in his battalion.
• She is the most beautiful girl on our campus.

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