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.classifying adjectives.
I saw a large red car outside their house.
There was a long hairy caterpillar on the leaf.
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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