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Kinds of Adjectives

 An adjective usually describes a noun or pronoun and it is used either before a noun or after a lining verb. Examples: Big, small, beautiful, interesting etc.

Qualitative adjectives provide information about the qualities of something or someone. So:

 These adjectives identify a quality that a person, an animal or a thing has; large, small, beautiful etc. For examples: Tall boy, big dog, long letter etc.

 qualitative: good, bad, happy, blue, French

 Because qualitative adjectives describe qualities, you can have more or less of the qualities they refer to.

He’s an intelligent man.
I saw a large red car outside their house.
There was a long hairy caterpillar on the leaf.
classifying adjectives.
 These adjectives place a noun in a particular class that it belongs to. These adjectives are words like ancient, modern, golden, silver etc.
classifying adjective - an adjective that classifies its noun (e.g., `a nervous disease' or `a musical instrument')
His wife was pregnant.
She was the German Chancellor.
These countries still have large stocks of nuclear weapons.

We can also have adjectives in other forms :-
  • possessive: my, thy, his, her, its, our, your, their
  • relative and interrogative: which, what, whatever, etc.
  • numeral: one, two, second, single, etc.
  • indefinite: some, any, much, few, every, etc.
  • demonstrative: this, that, the, a (an), such
  •  Color Adjectives:-  black, white, dark, Green etc.

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