Types of adjectives

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1. TYPES OF ADJECTIVE MAITE GARRIDO-ESL COACH AND EDUCATOR Emphasizing Adjectives lay stress on the proceeding noun. The words used to emphasize a noun are called Emphasizing Adjectives. ‘Very’ and ‘own’ are the most commonly used emphasizing adjectives which are used to emphasize some idea. Let’s see some examples- Mind your own business. Mind your own language. I arranged it with my own efforts. You did it with your own hands. He has written all this with his own hands. She has seen him by her own eyes.

2. PARTS OF SPEECH NOUN PRONOUN Name of a person, place, thing or idea . A pronoun is used in place of a noun or noun phrase to avoid repetition. ADJECTIVE VERB Describes, modifies or gives more information about a noun or a pronoun. Shows an action or a state of being ADVERB PREPOSITION Modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb. It tells frequency. Shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word. CONJUNCTION INTERJECTION Joins two words, ideas, phrases together and shows how they are connected. A word or phrase that expresses a strong emotion. It is a short exclamation.

3. TYPES OF ADJECTIVE DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES PROPER ADJECTIVES QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ADJECTIVES NUMERAL ADJECTIVES DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES INTERROGATIVE AND EXCLAMATIVE ADJECTIVES POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES DISTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVES EMPHASIZING ADJECTIVES

4. DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES The descriptive adjectives can be simply defined as the type of adjectives that are used to express the size, color, or shape of a person, a thing, an animal, or a place. They are used to provide more information to a noun by describing or modifying it . ( Adjetivo calificativo in Spanish) If you find it hard to spot the descriptive adjectives in the sentence, you can ask the question: “ Which one?” or more appropriately, “What does it look like?” in reference to a noun . She brushed her long brown hair. The slender man…

5. PROPER ADJECTIVES Proper adjective is a word that modifies nouns and pronouns and is formed from a proper noun. A proper noun is the specific name used for any person, place, or thing. Proper adjectives typically look like their original proper nouns but have some sort of alternate ending in order to make them adjectives . Proper Adjective Examples: proper noun: America I live in America. proper adjective: American The Fourth of July is an American holiday.

6. QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ADJECTIVES Qualitative Adjectives are those Adjectives which can describe quality of living beings or non-living things. Qualitative Adjectives answer the question, what kind? They are gradable which means they can form degrees . Examples: Boring , Interesting, scary, funny, dark, fair, silky, long, neutral… We cannot count Quantitative Adjectives. They are mostly abstract and perceived through our senses. T here are many Quantitative Adjectives. Examples : Some, few, little, most, all, no, enough, any, whole, sufficient, none.

7. NUMERAL ADJECTIVES Numeral Adjectives are those adjectives which are used to denote the number of nouns or the order in which they stand. They are also commonly called Adjectives of Number . Examples : One, two, five, ten, first, second, third, tenth, twelfth, last, all, some, few, each, most, many, no, several… 3 types: Definite Numeral Adjective: ordinal and cardinal numbers Indefinite Numeral Adjective: Few, all, no, several, some, many, most. Distributive Numeral Adjective: Each, every, either, neither.

8. DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES They help indicate a noun and are within close proximity of that noun in a sentence. They are especially helpful when you want to make it clear which noun (which thing) you would like to talk about. (Indexical meaning)

9. INTERROGATIVE AND EXCLAMATORY ADJECTIVES Interrogative adjective is used to question . Words such as ‘ what ’ ‘ whose ’ ‘ which ’ are examples . These are followed by a noun immediately after them . Ex. What language do you study ? The word ‘ what ’ is an exclamatory adjective

10. POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES FORM EXAMPLE MY + NOUN My old book YOUR + NOUN Your white t- shirt HIS + NOUN His new car HER + NOUN Her pretty face ITS + NOUN Its long bone OUR + NOUN Our amazing house YOUR + NOUN Your stupid mistake THEIR + NOUN Their forgotten keys No confundir nunca it’s ( it is ) con its (su). Se suelen usar con las partes del cuerpo: My head hurts Siempre concuerdan con la persona que posee, NUNCA con la cosa poseída No varían en plural aunque sea más de una cosa poseída. MYS KEYS Cuidado con his y her , ya que ambos significan su para la tercera persona.

11. DISTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVES An Adjective used to refer to each and every person / thing separately is called Distributive Adjective. i.e. Each, Every, either, neither, any, one, both etc. Examples Each boy was gives a chocolate. Every nation is proud of its culture Neither of them got majority. Either of you can collect the prize. I love any song that Shakira sings. Choose the one you prefer. Both of them are in the room.

12. EMPHASIZING ADJECTIVES Emphasizing Adjectives lay stress on the proceeding noun. The words used to emphasize a noun are called Emphasizing Adjectives. ‘Very’ and ‘own’ are the most commonly used emphasizing adjectives which are used to emphasize some idea. Let’s see some examples- Mind your own business. Mind your own language. I arranged it with my own efforts. You did it with your own hands. He has written all this with his own hands. She has seen him by her own eyes.

13. ACTIVITIES https :// agendaweb.org/grammar/adjectives-exercises.html https:// www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/adjektiv_adverb.htm https:// learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/english-grammar/adjectives http:// www.perfectyourenglish.com/grammar/adjectives-kinds.htm

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