What is an adjective?

What is An Adjective?

What is An Adjective? In English, an adjective is a word that describes a noun or pronoun such as person, place, thing or idea. Adjective is a part of speech which is common that people use it almost automatically, both in speech and in writing.

Adjective Examples:

English Adjectives can be identified by their endings. Common adjective endings are as follows:

• -able/-ible: credible, achievable, gullible, capable, illegible, sensible, remarkable, horrible
• -al: annual, functional, individual, logical, essential
• -ful: awful, cheerful, doubtful, faithful, forceful
• -ic: terrific, cubic, manic, rustic
• -ive: intensive, adaptive, attractive, dismissive, inventive, persuasive
• -less: doubtless, endless, fearless, helpless, homeless, breathless, careless, groundless, restless
• -ous: adventurous, famous, generous, courageous, dangerous, tremendous, fabulous

Though, a large number of adjectives are different…

• hot
• dark
• smart
• cool
• common
• complete
• large
• deep
• thin
• far
• atractive
• great
• doutful
• cold
• crowded
• careless
• noisy        
• quiet
• real
• pink
• silent
• simple
• strange
• generous
• wide
• young
• …

Types of Adjectives in English

In general, two main types of adjectives are:

• Descriptive adjectives describe quality of the noun. In fact, descriptive adjectives can be attributive adjectives or predicate adjectives.
• While, Limiting adjectives limit the noun being described. There are nine types of limiting adjectives as follows:
  • Definite & Indefinite Articles
  • Possessive Adjectives
  • Demonstrative Adjectives
  • Indefinite Adjectives
  • Interrogative Adjectives
  • Cardinal Adjectives
  • Ordinal Adjectives
  • Proper Adjectives
  • Nouns used as Adjectives