The Adjectives

The Adjectives

There exist different types of adjectives, today I will explain the most important types and some examples.

Types of adjectives:

1. Possessive Adjectives: Are used to indicate possession. For this adjectives, we use: Possessive Pronouns: My, Your, His, Her, Its, Our and Their.

Example: 

Your dog walks in the street.

That is my home.

     2. Demonstrative Adjectives: Indicate proximity and remoteness of the noun:

Example: 

These apples...

This cats...

Look at that building.

    3. Numbers Adjectives:When it answers the question “How many?”

Example: 

He ate 23 hot dogs during the contest, and was sick afterwards.

   4. Interrogative Adjectives: We used the wh question, for example we need: What,Which and Whose.

Example: What book are you reading?

Degrees of Adjectives:

• Positive Degree:  Simplest degree of quality.

           Small, Smart, Short, Fat, and others....

• Comparative Degree: 

Superiority: Smaller than..., shorter than...

Equality: ...as smart as...

Inferiority: Less fat than...

• Superlative Degree: Greater degree of a quality among many people or things

The most intelligent...

The fastest