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Understanding Adjectives in English

An adjective is a word that describes or qualifies a noun, serving as a part of speech in the English language. There are various types of adjectives including adjectives of quality, quantity, possessive, nationality, demonstrative, and interrogative, each serving a specific function in providing more information about nouns. Examples illustrate how adjectives enhance sentences by adding descriptive detail.

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Understanding Adjectives in English

An adjective is a word that describes or qualifies a noun, serving as a part of speech in the English language. There are various types of adjectives including adjectives of quality, quantity, possessive, nationality, demonstrative, and interrogative, each serving a specific function in providing more information about nouns. Examples illustrate how adjectives enhance sentences by adding descriptive detail.

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TOPIC: Adjective

An adjective is a word that qualifies, describes or tells us more about a noun. Adjectives are
known as describing words. Adjective is one of the parts of speech in English language E.g. big
house, white board,tall boy, heavybox, beautifulgirl, nice and gentle person, fat woman, two
pencils, round, smooth, sharp tusk, useful advice etc
1. Mr Ade is a nice and gentle person.
2. He lives in a glass house.
In the above sentences the underlined words are adjectives. They describe or add meaning to the
noun.
TYPES OF ADJECTIVE
Adjective of Quality:
These adjectives describe i.e they tell us “what sort” e.g.
1. She is a virtuous lady.
2. I have a black dog.
3. That is a long journey.
Adjective of Quantity:
1. It shows how much or how many. e.g.
2. There are ten bottles on the table.
3. She has much money.
4. He has many friends at school.
Possessive Adjective:
It shows a person owns a property or thing.
1. Timi is walking with his mother.
2. Our army will defeat yours.
3. These are his keys.
Adjective of Nationality
1. It shows a person’s race.
2. The Nigerian boxer won the fight.
3. Some Japanese businessmen came yesterday.
4. The Indian girl in my class had the highest score in English.
Demonstrative Adjective:
This shows distance or number of nouns, whether singular or plural
1. This pen belongs to me.
2. That castle on the mountain was built by Lord Hassier.
3. These books on the table are mine.
4. I warned those boys not to climb the tree.
Interrogative Adjective
1. : They are used with nouns to ask question.
2. What book are you reading now?
3. Whose house is that?
4. Which boy can answer this question?

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