Types of Adjectives

There are many kinds of Adjectives. Lets us examine all these examples in detail.

Personal Adjective:

Words that describe a person or a thing 

 The word that expresses the personal good or bad of a noun or a pronoun.

Example:

• It's a good book.
• It's a smooth way.
• The grass is thin and green.
• The weather is very cloudy here.

In the examples above good, smooth, thin, green and cloudy all are personal adjectives.

Adjective of Quantity:

These are adjectives that represent the quantitative attributes of a particular noun.

Let's illustrate with an example:

• I ate some lentils.
• Asad sleeps much late.
• I have many books.
• A few guests turned up at the party
• All boys are listening to the radio.

An adjective of quantity that references a quantity of something that cannot be counted (i.e. some milk, all lemonade).

Some, little, much, many, whole, insufficient, enough, all, great etc.

 Adjective of number:

Words that express the number of objects or persons are called adjectives of numbers.

• A cricket team has eleven players.
• They can't stay in a single room.
• There are forty-eight students in the class.
• Breakfast is the first meal of the day.
• She eats ten apples.

Demonstrative Adjective:

Words that point to a noun are called demonstrative adjectives.

Example:

• This is my book.
• That was his sister.
• Those flowers look nice.
• These were the efforts he made.

1. Tells whether a noun is singular or plural.
2. Tells whether the noun is far or near to the speaker.
3. This and these refer to the person or objects near the speaker.
4. That and those refer to the persons or objects further away from the speaker.

Interrogative Adjective:

When Whose, Which or What etc is used with a noun in such a way that a question appears it is called an interrogative adjective.

Example:

• Whose bag is this?
• What sort of fool are you?
• Who did this mistake?

Exclamatory Adjective:
When what is used at the beginning of a sentence to express a special desire, etc, such What is called an exclamatory adjective. Immediately after this, i.e "a" and "an" are used and usually, a single noun is used.

Example:

• What a great hero!
• What a heavy book!
• What a cute baby!

Possessive Adjective:

Words that show someone's ownership. They are called possessive adjectives.

such as ( my, his, yours, it's etc.)

Example:

•  I want your bicycle.
• He had left his duty early.
• She hates my voice.
• They broke their vow.