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Understanding Adjectives in English

The document discusses different types of adjectives including descriptive adjectives like attributive and predicative, adjectives based on function like quality, quantity, demonstrative, interrogative, and possessive, and proper adjectives derived from proper nouns. It also covers adjective order, degrees of adjectives including positive, comparative, and superlative, and provides examples for each type and use of adjectives.

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Understanding Adjectives in English

The document discusses different types of adjectives including descriptive adjectives like attributive and predicative, adjectives based on function like quality, quantity, demonstrative, interrogative, and possessive, and proper adjectives derived from proper nouns. It also covers adjective order, degrees of adjectives including positive, comparative, and superlative, and provides examples for each type and use of adjectives.

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Course Tittle : English

Topic : Adjectives

Submitted to : Ma’am Noureen

Submitted by : Umar Hayat

Roll # 102(2019-24)

LLB Section A (Morning)

Session 2020-25

Dated : 23-11-20

UNIVERSITY OF SAHIWAL
Adjectives
Words that give quality and quantity of noun are adjectives

Example

He has a beautiful bike : I gave him two chairs

Here beautiful is quality so it is adjective : and two used obove is quantity of noun

TYPES OF ADJECTIVE (descriptive)

Atributive Predicative

The tall boy Boy is tall


There is no linking verb between noun and Predicative adjectives contain linking verb
adjective noun and adjective

 Types of adjective with respect to function

1)Adjective of Quality

Adjectives which show quality of noun like

Clever, Ugly ,small, large ,tall,long,beautiful

2)Adjective of Quantity

Adjectives which show quantity of noun like

Much ,more, less ,some,few,

3)Demonstrative Adjective

These Adjectives point to noun like (Would you like this box?)

This, that, these, those

4) Interrogative adjective

Interrogative adjective pose a question

Which mangoes you like most?


Which, what, where, whose

5) Possessive Adjective

Possessive adjective show possession

This pen is mine (here mine is possessive adjective)

Our, my, your, there

6) Proper adjective

Proper adjectives are derived from a proper noun

I love Japanese machines ;Pakistani people: hussaini :hashmi

Adjective of number

Cordinal number Ordinal number


When number written in blow way When number written in blow way
One :two :three The first, the second, the fourth

Order of adjective

DNSACOM date, number, size, age, color, origen, material

Degree of adjective

1) positive

Ali is a nice boy

Ali is very nice boy(positive)

2)comparative degree

It is used when two things are compared

My college is better then his

Much +2nddegree+then ( higher you go colder it is)

3) superlative degree

It is used when more than two things are compared


Cheapest,deepest,biggest

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