Types of Adjectives

1. Adjective and its Types
Presented By: Kainat Asim

2. Adjectives
• Adjectives are those words which describe or
modify a noun or pronoun.
• They are used to add something to the meaning of
noun or pronoun.
• Adjectives are also called “describing word”.
• Adjectives do not modify verbs or other adjectives.

3. Hammer is my awesome dog. He is a lovable dog. He loves to sit on the
green plaid couch.
Sometimes, Hammer runs around playing with his squeaky toys, and
other times he lazily watches funny movies with me. Believe it or not, he
loves to eat cold ice cubes. Hammer is a loyal dog and I love my cute
dog.

4. Types Of Adjectives:
• Qualitative Adjective
• Quantitative Adjective
• Adjective of Number
• Demonstrative Adjective
• Possessive Adjective
• Interrogative Adjective
• Distributive Adjective
• Proper Adjective

5. Qualitative Adjectives
• Words which describe the quality of a noun or a pronoun
are called Qualitative Adjectives.
• Words like beautiful, cute, silly, tall, annoying,
loud and nice are all Qualitative Adjectives.
• For Example:
“The beautiful flowers have a nice smell”
“The cat is hungry,” or “The hungry cat.”

6. Quantitative Adjective:
• Words which describe the quantity of a noun or a pronoun are
called Quantitative adjectives.
• An adjective which answers for “how much” is quantitative
Adjective.
• Much, little, enough, half, sufficient etc. are used as
Quantitative Adjectives.
• (a) I have much work to do.
• (b) A little knowledge is dangerous.

7. Demonstrative Adjective:
• A demonstrative adjective describes “which” noun or
pronoun you’re referring to.
• Demonstrative adjectives always come before the word
they’re modifying
• These adjectives include the words: This, That, These,
Those.
• For Example: This book is mine
Those books belong to her.

8. Possessive Adjective:
• Possessive adjectives show possession.
• They describe to whom a thing belongs.
• Some of the most common possessive adjectives
include:
My, His, Her, Their, Your, Our, Mine, Hers, Ours,
Yours.
• For Example: This is my cat.
I feel bad at his missing this
opportunity.

9. Interrogative Adjective:
• These adjectives are always followed by a noun or a
pronoun and are used to form questions.
• Other question words, like “who” or “how,” aren’t
adjectives.
• The interrogative adjectives are: Which, What, Whose
• For Example:“ Which song will you play on your
wedding day?”
“What pet do you want to get?”

10. Proper Adjective:
• Adjectives that come from the proper nouns are called proper
adjectives.
• For Example:
Shakespearean sonnets are easy to comprehend.
Japanese cars are wonderful.
I love Chinese food.

11. Adjective of Numbers:
• Adjective of Numbers tell us the exact number of
something.
• It is divided into two types:
(a) Definite Numeral Adjectives
(b) Indefinite Numeral Adjectives

12. A) Definite Numeral Adjective:
• Definite numeral adjectives are used to denote exact number
or position of the subject in the sentence.
• They are subdivided into two types:
• Cardinals: E.g. One, Two, Three etc.
• Ordinals: E.g. First, Second, Third etc.
For Example: There are thirty-six students in our class.
(Cardinal)
Zunaira is a 1st rank holder. (Ordinal)

13. B) Indefinite Numeral Adjective
• The Adjectives which do not denote an exact number of a person
or a thing are called Indefinite Numeral Adjective.
• Words such as both, many, some, much, few, several, none
etc. are used as Indefinite Numeral Adjectives.
• For Example: Many people attended the class.
Several children like dinosaurs.

14. Distributive Adjectives:
• Distributive adjectives describe specific members out of a
group.
• These adjectives are used to single out one or more individual
items or people.
• Some of the most common distributive adjectives include
each, every, either, neither, any.
• Examples: “Every rose has its thorn”.
“Which of these two songs do you like?” “I don’t
like either song.”

15. Activity:
• Find the Adjectives in the following sentences:
a) I have little interest in the topic.
b) Iggy was a six feet tall and skinny young boy.
c) Stop messing with my hair.
d) Each participant was asked to complete a survey.
e) Whose pen is this?
f) This is my friend, Diana.

16. Activity:
• Find the Adjectives in the following sentences:
1) I have little interest in the topic. (Quantitative)
2) Iggy was a six feet tall and skinny young boy. (Qualitative)
3) Stop messing with my hair. (Possessive Adjective)
4) Each participant was asked to complete a survey.
(Distributive)
5) This is my friend, Diana. (Demonstrative Adjective)
6) Whose pen is this? (Interrogative Adjective)