ADJECTIVES
What is an adjective ?
An adjective is a word that indicates a quality of a person or thing referred to by a noun.
Adjectives fall into two categories : Descriptive and Limiting.
Descriptive adjectives are those which describe the color, size, or quality of a person or thing (noun/pronoun).
Descriptive adjectives :
· Colorful
· Interesting
· Pretty
· Large
When descriptive adjectives modify a singular countable noun, they are usually preceded by a, an, or the.
Examples :
· a beautiful girl
· an interesting story
· the red blouse
Limiting adjectives place restrictions on the words they modify (quantity, distance, possession)
Limiting adjectives :
· Cardinal numbers : one, two
· Ordinal numbers : first, second
· Possessives : my, your, his
· Demonstrative : this, that, these, those
· Quantity : few, many, much
· Articles : a, an, the
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